What is the Latin 1 ISO-8859-1 character set?

Latin-1, also called ISO-8859-1, is an 8-bit character set endorsed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and represents the alphabets of Western European languages.

How do I change the encoding to UTF-8?

Click Tools, then select Web options. Go to the Encoding tab. In the dropdown for Save this document as: choose Unicode (UTF-8). Click Ok.

What is the difference between cp1252 and UTF-8?

In Windows-1252, all characters are encoded using a single byte and therefore the encoding only contains 256 characters altogether. In UTF-8 however, those two characters are ones that are encoded using 2 bytes each.

What is character mapping between ISO 8859-1 / UTF-8?

Character mapping between ISO-8859-1 / UTF-8, decode and encode data between string and bytes, and file I/O operations including MIME encoding detection. All examples are written in Java and Python 3. Encoding is always a pain for developers.

What does you + FFFD stand for in ISO 8859-1?

When reading an ISO-8859-1 encoded content as UTF-8, you will often see �, the replacement character ( U+FFFD) for an unknown, unrecognized or unrepresentable character. Different text editors and IDEs have support for encoding: both for the display encoding, and changing the file encoding itself.

When did UTF-8 become the most common encoding?

In November 2003, RFC 3629limited UTF-8 to a maximum of four bytes per character in order to match the constraints of the UTF-16 character encoding. In 2008, Google reported that UTF-8 had become the most common encoding for HTML files. Today, some files require UTF-8 encoding, for example, JSONstrings.

How to convert ASCII characters to UTF-8?

PHP provides the utf8_encode() function. It recognizes the Extended ASCII character set to be ISO-8859-1 and converts the single-byte characters above code point 127 into UTF-8 multibyte characters. The conversion is a “mung” that cannot be done more than once (see the code snippet in “Pitfalls” below).