Affiliate link

HTML Reference - Character Sets

HTML character set is a set of character codes that are supported by browser to display.

HTML Character Sets List

To set the HTML charset for web page, use <meta charset="UTF-8">

• ASCII
• ISO-8859-1
• UTF-8 (Recommended in HTML 5 specification)

ASCII

Support 128 different characters. Numbers (0-9), English letters (a-z, A-Z) and special characters.

ISO-8859-1

Support 128 characters from ASCII. And UTF-8 for values from 160 to 255.

<meta charset="ISO-8859-1">

UTF-8

Support 128 characters from ASCII. UTF-8 extend characters from 256 to support international language characters.

<meta charset="UTF-8">

Affiliate link