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What is difference between UTF-8 and HTML entities?
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Entities are frequently used to display reserved characters (which would otherwise be interpreted as HTML code), and invisible characters (like non-breaking spaces). You can also use them in place of other characters that are difficult to type with a standard keyboard.
Unicode enables processing, storage, and transport of text independent of platform and language. The default character encoding in HTML-5 is UTF-8.
You don't generally need to use HTML character entities if your editor supports Unicode. Entities can be useful when: Your keyboard does not support the character you need to type. For example, many keyboards do not have em-dash or the copyright symbol.
Why use UTF-8? An HTML page can only be in one encoding. You cannot encode different parts of a document in different encodings. A Unicode-based encoding such as UTF-8 can support many languages and can accommodate pages and forms in any mixture of those languages.
UTF-8 is an encoding scheme for byte-level encoding.
HTML entities provide a way to express many characters in the standard (usually ASCII) character space. It also makes them more human readable readable when UTF-8 is not available.
The main purpose of HTML Entities today is to make sure text that looks like HTML renders as text. For example, the Less than or Greater than operators (< or >) when placed in a certain order (i.e <text>) can accidentally render as HTML when the intent was for them to render as text.
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