Can anyone tell me please what is <meta charset="UTF-8">

Question

what is the need of this in html..
or in making of website

Answer 1

It sets the website's encoding standard to Unicode UTF-8, which is the most universal character set, incorporating most of modern alphabets.

Answer 2

charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.

Answer 3

Actually, with that meta charset you are able to write "non-Latin" characters in your html and it'll understand them. Otherwise you'll see something else instead of Kanji, Arabic... "special" characters.