ISO Language Codes The HTML lang attribute declares the language of a web page or only a part of a web page. It is used to help search engines and browsers. W3C suggests to declare the primary language for every web page with the lang attribute inside the <html> tag. See how to do it below: See how it must be in… Continue reading ISO Language Codes
Category: 4. HTML References
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1 (The International Standards Organization) is the default character set in most browsers. The first 128 characters of ISO-8859-1 are the original ASCII character-set (the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English alphabet, and some special characters). Reserved Characters in HTML Some characters are reserved in HTML. That is because these are the characters making up… Continue reading ISO-8859-1
ASCII
ASCII, the acronym for the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange” is the first character-encoding scheme used between computers on the Internet. Modern character encoding schemes like UTF-8 and ISO-8859 are built on ASCII. The ASCII Character Set ASCII Character Set was designed in the ’60s, as a standard character set for computers and hardware… Continue reading ASCII
HTML Character Sets
The browser should know what character sets (character encoding) to use. It is required to display an HTML page correctly. UTF-8 is the default character encoding for HTML5. However, it was used to be different. ASCII was the character set before it. And the ISO-8859-1 was the default character set from HTML 2.0 till HTML 4.01. However, there were still problems… Continue reading HTML Character Sets