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{{short description|Use of encoding systems for international characters in HTML}}
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{{Hatnote|For fixing links within Wikipedia, see [[Help:Percent-encoding#Fixing links with unsupported characters|Help:Percent-encoding (the section Fixing Links with Unsupported Characters)]].}}
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[[HTML]] (Hypertext Markup Language) has been in use since 1991, but HTML 4.0 (December 1997) was the first standardized version where international [[character (computing)|character]]s were given reasonably complete treatment. When an HTML document includes special characters outside the range of seven-bit [[ASCII]], two goals are worth considering: the information's [[integrity]], and universal [[Web browser|browser]] display.
==Specifying the document's character encoding==
There are several ways to specify which character encoding is used in the document. First, the [[web server]] can include the character encoding or "<code>charset</code>" in the [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol]] (HTTP) <code>Content-Type</code> header, which would typically look like this:<ref>{{citation |url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1.5|chapter=Content-Type |title=Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content|publisher=[[IETF]] |date=June 2014 |accessdate=2014-07-30}}</ref>
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