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Question: Encoding in Notepad
September 27, 2012 10:12AM

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Sometimes when I check my error console it tells me that my enocding has not been specified. In trying to research this it seems that UTF-8 is the better code to save in but I am really confused about this. Should we be saving our html files with ANSI encoding or UTF-8. Can this affect how browsers read our codes. Should we be specifying this in our head section and how do we do this? What about Unicode and Unicode big endian?

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Re: Question: Encoding in Notepad
September 28, 2012 08:57AM

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If you are really interested, get technical here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11176.htm

Short answer - UTF-8 is... better.... but... it depends on what you are doing. It gets more important if you work with funny symbols from funny languages.

Just use:

Language: HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>