TIL Why Charset Matters

TIL Encoding Differentials: Why Charset Matters

Another, less common way to indicate the character encoding is the Byte-Order Mark. This is a specific Unicode character (U+FEFF) that can be placed in front of a string to indicate the byte endianness and character encoding. It is mainly used in files, but since these might be served via a web server, modern browsers support it. A Byte-Order Mark at the beginning of an HTML document even takes precedence over a charset attribute in the Content-Type header and the <meta> tag.