HTML ASCII Character Sets and Entity Definitions
November 6, 2008
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By default, HTML+ documents are made up of 8-bit characters from the ISO 8859 Latin-1 character set. The network protocol used to retrieve documents may translate the character set into a locally acceptable form, e.g. EBCDIC.
The HTTP protocol uses the MIME standard (RFC 1341) to specify the document type and character set. ISO SGML entity [...]