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Primer on Character Encoding Settings with HTML/PHP

While as humans we perceive words as a collection of letters or glyphs as full word representations (e.g., Chinese) computers store everything as a binary representation, including letters. Every letter is represented in binary as some numeric value which is constant within a character set. The most familiar simple character set is the ASCII Character Set, which covers most standard English letters and numbers. However of course, other letters exists…

8 May 2010   ::   Web Development   ::   #utf-8 #iso-8859-1 #mojibake #ascii #encoding #character set
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