Character encodings in HTML: Difference between revisions

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[[HTML]] has been in use since [[1991]], but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4.0, not published until 1997. Considerable care must be exercised when creating HTML pages with special characters outside the range of 7-bit [[ASCII]] to ensure two goals: the integrity of the information stored in the HTML document, and proper display of the document by the largest possible variety of browsers.
 
== The document character set ==