Tag(s): qa-what-is-encoding

This article was updated to emphasize that UTF-8 should be the default character encoding on the Web. In addition, editorial changes were made to improve the readability of the article and bring it in line with more recent templates.

Translators are requested to update their translations appropriately.

Teckenkodning för nybörjare (Character encodings for beginners)

This article was translated into Swedish thanks to Olle Olsson.

Ukrainian: Кодування символів для початківців (Character encodings for beginners)

Russian: Кодировка символов для начинающих (Character encodings for beginners)

These articles were translated thanks to Alexandr Shlapak.

Zeichencodierungen (Character encodings)

HTML und XHTML ausliefern (Serving HTML & XHTML)

Verwendung von b- und i-Elementen (Using b and i elements)

The translations of the following articles were also updated.

Zeichencodierung für Anfänger (Character encodings for beginners)

Verwendung von Zeichen-Escapes in Markup und CSS (Using character escapes in markup and CSS)

These articles were translated into German thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann.

A short section was added to this article to lead readers to additional information. This and other changes are described below. View the article.

German, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian translators should consider updating it.

Description of changes:

• a ‘By the way’ section was added, to point the reader to concepts described in the article Character encodings: Essential concepts. These explanations take the reader a step further in understanding character encodings.
• various small edits throughout to accommodate the latest template and style guidelines
• substantial changes to the Further Reading section

Codificarea caracterelor pentru incepatori (Character encodings for beginners)

Setarea setului de caractere in .htaccess (Setting charset information in .htaccess)

These articles were translated into Romanian thanks to Claudiu Apetrei.

Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following articles have been translated into Spanish.

Codificación de caracteres para principiantes (Character encodings for beginners)
Configuración de codificaciones en aplicaciones de autoría web (Setting encoding in web authoring applications)

Thanks to Dénes Kohn, Metaphraser – Translation Company, the following article has been translated into Hungarian.

Karakterkódolások kezdőknek (Character encodings for beginners)

Thanks to M. Kadubiec the FAQ-based article “Character encodings for beginners” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article “Character encodings for beginners” has now been translated into German (language negotiated).