e.g:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
When the browser sees this tag, it will know that the page is UTF-8, and displays the correct. XHTML requires that you declare the encoding, if it is something different then the default UTF-8 or UTF-16. You can also use XML defines the character encoding. Some character encodings are almost identical.
International Character Set Codes
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of UTF-8 if possible - UTF-8 can be used in all languages, and is recommended charset on the Internet. Support is growing fast. However, here is a partial list of countries,languages, & the older characters are generally used for:
Language (country) | Charset |
|---|---|
Afrikaans (AF) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Catalan (CA) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Bulgarian (BG) | iso-8859-5 |
Basque (EU) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Byelorussian (BE) | iso-8859-5 |
Croatian (HR) | iso-8859-2, windows-1250 |
Czech (CS) | iso-8859-2 |
Danish (DA) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Dutch (NL) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
English (EN) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Finnish (FI) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Albanian (SQ) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Esperanto (EO) | iso-8859-3* |
Estonian (ET) | iso-8859-15 |
Hungarian (HU) | iso-8859-2 |
Faroese (FO) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Hebrew (IW) | iso-8859-8 |
French (FR) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Galician (GL) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
German (DE) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Icelandic (IS) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Inuit (Eskimo) languages | iso-8859-10* |
Macedonian (MK) | iso-8859-5, windows-1251 |
Irish (GA) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Italian (IT) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Japanese (JA) | shift_jis, iso-2022-jp, euc-jp |
Korean (KO) | euc-kr |
Latvian (LV) | iso-8859-13, windows-1257 |
Lapp | iso-8859-10* ** |
Lithuanian (LT) | iso-8859-13, windows-1257 |
Portuguese (PT) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Maltese (MT) | iso-8859-3* |
Polish (PL) | iso-8859-2 |
Norwegian (NO) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Serbian (SR) latin | iso-8859-2, windows-1250 |
Swedish (SV) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Russian (RU) | koi8-r, iso-8859-5 |
Romanian (RO) | iso-8859-2 |
Serbian (SR) cyrillic | windows-1251, iso-8859-5*** |
Turkish (TR) | iso-8859-9, windows-1254 |
Slovak (SK) | iso-8859-2 |
Slovenian (SL) | iso-8859-2, windows-1250 |
Spanish (ES) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Scottish (GD) | iso-8859-1, windows-1252 |
Ukrainian (UK) | iso-8859-5 |
Arabic (AR) | iso-8859-6 |
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