HTML Charset, Emojis, and URL Encode

ASCII was the first character encoding standard.

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ASCII defines 128 different characters that could be used on the internet

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ISO-8859-1 was the default character set for HTML 4. This character set supported 256 different character codes.

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ANSI (Windows-1252) was the original Apple character set. ANSI is identical to ISO-8859-1, except that ANSI has 32 extra characters.

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The HTML5 specification encourages web developers to use the UTF-8 character set, which covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world!

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Which is the correct default character set meta tag for HTML 5?

• <meta char="ISO-8859-1">

• <charset="UTF-8">

• <meta charset="UTF-8">

• <meta charset="WTH-5">

A URL can be composed of words (e.g. w3schools.com), or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (e.g. 192.68.20.50).

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Most people enter the name when surfing, because names are more acurate than numbers.

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http - HyperText Transfer Protocol - Common web pages. Not encrypted

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ftp - Formula Transfer Protocol - Downloading or uploading files.

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