Character encoding is a method of converting bytes into characters. To validate or display an HTML document properly, a program must choose a proper character encoding.
To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set used in the page.This is specified in the <meta> tag:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
| Number | ASCII ANSI ISO-8859-1 UTF-8 | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | Space | |
| 33 | ! | Exclamation Mark |
| 34 | " | Quotation Mark |
| 35 | # | Hash Sign |
| 36 | $ | Dollar Sign |
| 37 | % | Percent Sign |
| 38 | & | Ampersand Sign |
| 39 | ' | Apostrophe Sign |
| 40 | ( | Opening Paranthesis |
| 41 | ) | Closing Parenthesis |
| 42 | * | Asterisk Sign |
| 43 | + | Plus Sign |
| 44 | , | Comma |
| 45 | - | Hyphen/minus Sign |
| 46 | . | Full-stop |
| 47 | / | Slash/Divide Sign |
| 48 | 0 | Number Zero |
| 49 | 1 | Number One |
| 50 | 2 | Number Two |
| 51 | 3 | Number Three |
| 52 | 4 | Number Four |
| 53 | 5 | Number Five |
| 54 | 6 | Number Six |
| 55 | 7 | Number Seven |
| 56 | 8 | Number Eight |
| 57 | 9 | Number Nine |
| 58 | : | Colon |
| 59 | ; | Semicolon |
| 60 | < | Lessthan Sign |
| 61 | = | Equalto Sign |
| 62 | > | Greaterthan Sign |
| 63 | ? | Question Mark |
| 64 | @ | at Sign |