What does the <meta charset="utf-8"> tag do?

Question

<meta charset="utf-8">

Answer 1

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_meta_charset.asp

The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

Hope this helps😃

Answer 2

It defines the character encoding of your code. 😶