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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
w3cdevs@w3c.social ("W3C Developers") wrote:

A character encoding defines how text is stored as bytes. If you’ve seen “café” instead of “café,” that’s an encoding mismatch. This intro covers how encoding works, how #Unicode and UTF-8 relate, and why mistakes break apps and websites. It also matters beyond #developers, affecting readability, search, data exchange, #accessibility and whether people see text correctly online.

🎬 Watch @xfq, @w3c's Internationalization Lead, explain what character encoding is: https://youtu.be/y2ay7otbFWk
#i18n

The word "café" is written as “café” (on the left) instead of “café” (on the right)