Character encoding in HTMLIn the beginning the Web had ASCII. And that was good. But then, not really. The Europeans and their strange accents were a bit of a problem. So then the Web had iso-latin1. And HTML could be assumed to be using that, by default (RFC2854, section 4). And that was good. But then, not really. There was a whole world out there, with a lot of writing systems, tons of different characters. Many differe
