HTML TUTORIALS - HTML Character Encodings
HTML Character Encodings
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| Character Set | Description |
|---|---|
| ISO-8859-1 | Latin alphabet part 1 Covering North America,Western Europe, Latin America, theCaribbean, Canada, Africa |
| ISO-8859-2 | Latin alphabet part 2 Covering Eastern Europe |
| ISO-8859-3 | Latin alphabet part 3 Covering SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous others |
| ISO-8859-4 | Latin alphabet part 4 Covering Scandinavia/Baltics (and others not in ISO-8859-1) |
| ISO-8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic alphabet part 5 |
| ISO-8859-6 | Latin/Arabic alphabet part 6 |
| ISO-8859-7 | Latin/Greek alphabet part 7 |
| ISO-8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew alphabet part 8 |
| ISO-8859-9 | Latin 5 alphabet part 9 Same as ISO-8859-1 except Turkish characters replace Icelandic ones |
| ISO-8859-10 | Latin 6 Latin 6 Lappish, Nordic, and Eskimo |
| ISO-8859-15 | The same as ISO-8859-1 but with more characters added |
| ISO-2022-JP | Latin/Japanese alphabet part 1 |
| ISO-2022-JP-2 | Latin/Japanese alphabet part 2 |
| ISO-2022-KR | Latin/Korean alphabet part 1 |
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| Character Set | Description |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 | A Unicode Translation Format that comes in 8-bit units. That is, it comes in bytes. A character in UTF8 can be from 1 to 4 bytes long, making UTF8 variable width. |
| UTF-16 | A Unicode Translation Format that comes in 16-bit units. That is, it comes in shorts. It can be 1 or 2 shorts long, making UTF16 variable width. |
| UTF-32 | A Unicode Translation Format that comes in 32-bit units. That is, it comes in longs. It is a fixed-width format and is always 1 "long" in length. |
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