Character encodings in HTML  From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For a list of character
entity references, see List of XML and HTML character entity
references.  HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) has been in use
since 1991, but HTML 4.0 (December 1997) was the first
standardized version where international characters 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 browser display.  Specifying the document's character
encoding[edit]  There are several ways to specify which
character encoding is used in the document. First, the web
server can include the character encoding or "charset" in the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Content-Type header, which
would typically look like this:[1]   This method gives the HTTP
server a convenient way to alter document's encoding according
to content negotiation; certain HTTP server softwa