ASCII Encoding Reference Your browser will encode input, according to the character-set used in your page. The default character-set in HTML5 is UTF-8.

To display HTML correctly, the browser must know what encoding to use. All modern computer languages use the UTF-8 character encoding as default. UTF-8 covers the most languages and …

The HTML Standard is Unicode UTF-8 The default character set in HTML-4 (ISO-8859-1) were limited in size and not compatible in multilingual environments. The default character encoding in HTML-5 is …

URL encoding converts non-ASCII characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet. URL encoding replaces non-ASCII characters with a "%" followed by hexadecimal digits.

Windows-1252 - ANSI Windows-1252 was the first default character set in Microsoft Windows. It was the most popular character set in Windows from 1985 to 1990. The name "ANSI Code Pages" was used …

The ASCII Character Set ASCII was the first character encoding standard for the web. It defined 128 different latin characters that could be used on the internet: English letters (a-z and A-Z) Numbers (0 …

ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 was the default character in HTML 4.01. ISO (The International Standards Organization) defines the standard character sets for different alphabets/languages. The different …

Definition and Usage The encode() method encodes the string, using the specified encoding. If no encoding is specified, UTF-8 will be used.

Common HTML Character Sets The default character set in HTML5 is UTF-8. For a closer look, visit our Complete HTML Character Set Reference.

ASCII was the first character set (encoding standard) used between computers on the Internet. Both ISO-8859-1 (default in HTML 4) and UTF-8 (default in HTML 5), are built on ASCII.