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The UTF-8 Character Set ... UTF-8 is identical to ASCII for the values from 0 to 127. UTF-8 does not use the values from 128 to 159. UTF-8 is identical to both ... 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FromASCIItoUTF-8 ASCIIwasthefirstcharacterencodingstandard.ASCIIdefined128differentcharactersthatcouldbeusedontheinternet:numbers(0-9),Englishletters(A-Z),andsomespecial characterslike!$+-()@<>. ISO-8859-1wasthedefaultcharactersetforHTML4.Thischaracterset supported256differentcharactercodes.HTML4alsosupportedUTF-8. ANSI(Windows-1252)wastheoriginalWindowscharacterset.ANSIisidentical toISO-8859-1,exceptthatANSIhas32extracharacters. TheHTML5specificationencourageswebdeveloperstousetheUTF-8character set,whichcoversalmostallofthe charactersandsymbolsintheworld! TheHTMLcharsetAttribute TodisplayanHTMLpagecorrectly,awebbrowsermustknowthecharactersetusedinthepage. Thisisspecifiedinthetag: DifferencesBetweenCharacterSets Thefollowingtabledisplaysthedifferencesbetweenthecharactersetsdescribedabove: Numb ASCII ANSI 8859 UTF-8 Description 32space 33!!!!exclamationmark 34""""quotationmark 35####numbersign 36$$$$dollarsign 37%%%%percentsign 38&&&&ampersand 39''''apostrophe 40((((leftparenthesis 41))))rightparenthesis 42****asterisk 43++++plussign 44,,,,comma 45----hyphen-minus 46....fullstop 47////solidus 480000digitzero 491111digitone 502222digittwo 513333digitthree 524444digitfour 535555digitfive 546666digitsix 557777digitseven 568888digiteight 579999digitnine 58::::colon 59;;;;semicolon 60<<<>>>greater-thansign 63????questionmark 64@@@@commercialat 65AAAALatincapitalletterA 66BBBBLatincapitalletterB 67CCCCLatincapitalletterC 68DDDDLatincapitalletterD 69EEEELatincapitalletterE 70FFFFLatincapitalletterF 71GGGGLatincapitalletterG 72HHHHLatincapitalletterH 73IIIILatincapitalletterI 74JJJJLatincapitalletterJ 75KKKKLatincapitalletterK 76LLLLLatincapitalletterL 77MMMMLatincapitalletterM 78NNNNLatincapitalletterN 79OOOOLatincapitalletterO 80PPPPLatincapitalletterP 81QQQQLatincapitalletterQ 82RRRRLatincapitalletterR 83SSSSLatincapitalletterS 84TTTTLatincapitalletterT 85UUUULatincapitalletterU 86VVVVLatincapitalletterV 87WWWWLatincapitalletterW 88XXXXLatincapitalletterX 89YYYYLatincapitalletterY 90ZZZZLatincapitalletterZ 91[[[[leftsquarebracket 92\\\\reversesolidus 93]]]]rightsquarebracket 94^^^^circumflexaccent 95____lowline 96````graveaccent 97aaaaLatinsmalllettera 98bbbbLatinsmallletterb 99ccccLatinsmallletterc 100ddddLatinsmallletterd 101eeeeLatinsmalllettere 102ffffLatinsmallletterf 103ggggLatinsmallletterg 104hhhhLatinsmallletterh 105iiiiLatinsmallletteri 106jjjjLatinsmallletterj 107kkkkLatinsmallletterk 108llllLatinsmallletterl 109mmmmLatinsmallletterm 110nnnnLatinsmalllettern 111ooooLatinsmalllettero 112ppppLatinsmallletterp 113qqqqLatinsmallletterq 114rrrrLatinsmallletterr 115ssssLatinsmallletters 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195 ÃÃÃLatincapitalletterAwithtilde 196 ÄÄÄLatincapitalletterAwithdiaeresis 197 ÅÅÅLatincapitalletterAwithringabove 198 ÆÆÆLatincapitalletterAE 199 ÇÇÇLatincapitalletterCwithcedilla 200 ÈÈÈLatincapitalletterEwithgrave 201 ÉÉÉLatincapitalletterEwithacute 202 ÊÊÊLatincapitalletterEwithcircumflex 203 ËËËLatincapitalletterEwithdiaeresis 204 ÌÌÌLatincapitalletterIwithgrave 205 ÍÍÍLatincapitalletterIwithacute 206 ÎÎÎLatincapitalletterIwithcircumflex 207 ÏÏÏLatincapitalletterIwithdiaeresis 208 ÐÐÐLatincapitalletterEth 209 ÑÑÑLatincapitalletterNwithtilde 210 ÒÒÒLatincapitalletterOwithgrave 211 ÓÓÓLatincapitalletterOwithacute 212 ÔÔÔLatincapitalletterOwithcircumflex 213 ÕÕÕLatincapitalletterOwithtilde 214 ÖÖÖLatincapitalletterOwithdiaeresis 215 ×××multiplicationsign 216 ØØØLatincapitalletterOwithstroke 217 ÙÙÙLatincapitalletterUwithgrave 218 ÚÚÚLatincapitalletterUwithacute 219 ÛÛÛLatincapitalletterUwithcircumflex 220 ÜÜÜLatincapitalletterUwithdiaeresis 221 ÝÝÝLatincapitalletterYwithacute 222 ÞÞÞLatincapitalletterThorn 223 ßßßLatinsmalllettersharps 224 àààLatinsmallletterawithgrave 225 áááLatinsmallletterawithacute 226 âââLatinsmallletterawithcircumflex 227 ãããLatinsmallletterawithtilde 228 äääLatinsmallletterawithdiaeresis 229 åååLatinsmallletterawithringabove 230 æææLatinsmallletterae 231 çççLatinsmalllettercwithcedilla 232 èèèLatinsmallletterewithgrave 233 éééLatinsmallletterewithacute 234 êêêLatinsmallletterewithcircumflex 235 ëëëLatinsmallletterewithdiaeresis 236 ìììLatinsmallletteriwithgrave 237 íííLatinsmallletteriwithacute 238 îîîLatinsmallletteriwithcircumflex 239 ïïïLatinsmallletteriwithdiaeresis 240 ðððLatinsmalllettereth 241 ñññLatinsmallletternwithtilde 242 òòòLatinsmallletterowithgrave 243 óóóLatinsmallletterowithacute 244 ôôôLatinsmallletterowithcircumflex 245 õõõLatinsmallletterowithtilde 246 öööLatinsmallletterowithdiaeresis 247 ÷÷÷divisionsign 248 øøøLatinsmallletterowithstroke 249 ùùùLatinsmallletteruwithgrave 250 úúúLatinsmallletteruwithacute 251 ûûûLatinsmallletterwithcircumflex 252 üüüLatinsmallletteruwithdiaeresis 253 ýýýLatinsmallletterywithacute 254 þþþLatinsmallletterthorn 255 ÿÿÿLatinsmallletterywithdiaeresis TheASCIICharacterSet ASCIIusesthevaluesfrom0to31(and127)forcontrolcharacters. ASCIIusesthevaluesfrom32to126forletters,digits,andsymbols. ASCIIdoesnotusethevaluesfrom128to255. TheANSICharacterSet(Windows-1252) ANSIisidenticaltoASCIIforthevaluesfrom0to127. ANSIhasaproprietarysetofcharactersforthevaluesfrom128to159. ANSIisidenticaltoUTF-8forthevaluesfrom160to255. TheISO-8859-1CharacterSet ISO-8859-1isidenticaltoASCIIforthevaluesfrom0to127. ISO-8859-1doesnotusethevaluesfrom128to159. ISO-8859-1isidenticaltoUTF-8forthevaluesfrom160to255. TheUTF-8CharacterSet UTF-8isidenticaltoASCIIforthevaluesfrom0to127. UTF-8doesnotusethevaluesfrom128to159.  UTF-8isidenticaltobothANSIand8859-1forthevaluesfrom160to255. UTF-8continuesfromthevalue256withmorethan10000different characters. Foracloserlook,studyourCompleteHTMLCharacterSetReference. ❮Previous Next❯ NEW WejustlaunchedW3Schoolsvideos Explorenow COLORPICKER Getcertifiedbycompletingacoursetoday! w3schoolsCERTIFIED.2022 Getstarted CODEGAME PlayGame