Utf-8

2 snippets across 2 stacks — HTML & CSS, Python

HCHTML & CSS

syntax

<meta charset="UTF-8">

example

<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.

syntax

str.encode(encoding)
bytes.decode(encoding)

example

text = "caf\u00e9"
encoded = text.encode("utf-8")
print(encoded)
print(encoded.decode("utf-8"))

output

b'caf\xc3\xa9'
caf\u00e9

Note UTF-8 is the default encoding. Use errors='ignore' or errors='replace' to handle characters that cannot be encoded in the target encoding.