What is the point of having: <meta charset="UTF-8"> within the head tag

Question

I am still confused on what the purpose of this meta tag. Can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

In the western world utf-8 is standard, some asian languages are utf-16. In order to display the content the browser needs to know how to encode it. Just a decade ago it was much more important.

Answer 2

This defines the character set

This allows the web page to know that you are using the ASCII characters

This includes the english alphabet, numbers and other characters such as @ and (

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Answer 3

charset specifies the character encoding. UTF-8 stands for Unicode

Answer 4

spotbot2k Thank you! That makes sense now.