Encoding term explained

Encoding is a map between numeric number of characters (numbers, letters, symbols and other special characters). The most common encodings are considered in conjunction with the ASCII Unicode UTF-8 and Windows-1251. The content encoding is a special meta tag, which sets a type code for pages.

<meta charset=UTF-8>

In case it is Unicode UTF-8.

Universal encoding

By far the most popular and well known is the UTF-8 encoding, and it is used to ensure maximum compatibility with all old systems that used conventional 8-bit characters. UTF-8 includes most of the sites that are on the Internet, and this standard is universal. UTF-8 supports Cyrillic and Latin.