Character Encoding
HC · Document Structure<meta charset="UTF-8"><head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>Note Must appear within the first 1024 bytes of the document. UTF-8 handles virtually all global characters and emoji.
Utf-8
2 snippets across 2 stacks - HTML & CSS, Python
HCHTML & CSS
PYPython
Encode & Decode
PY · Stringsstr.encode(encoding)
bytes.decode(encoding)text = "caf\u00e9"
encoded = text.encode("utf-8")
print(encoded)
print(encoded.decode("utf-8"))b'caf\xc3\xa9'
caf\u00e9Note UTF-8 is the default encoding. Use errors='ignore' or errors='replace' to handle characters that cannot be encoded in the target encoding.
Frequently asked questions
- How does HTML & CSS handle utf-8?
- This task is covered in 2 stacks on this page: HTML & CSS, Python. The "Character Encoding" snippet in HTML & CSS uses `<meta charset="UTF-8">`.
- Which code does the HTML & CSS example use?
- The "Character Encoding" snippet uses `<meta charset="UTF-8">`, from the Document Structure section of the HTML & CSS cheat sheet.
- Which stacks cover "utf-8" on this page?
- HTML & CSS, Python. Together they hold 2 copy-ready snippets for this task.
- Is there anything to watch out for?
- Yes. For "Character Encoding": Must appear within the first 1024 bytes of the document. UTF-8 handles virtually all global characters and emoji.