Encoding Standard

E48501

The Encoding Standard is a WHATWG specification that defines how text is encoded and decoded on the web to ensure consistent character handling across browsers and platforms.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf WHATWG specification
character encoding specification
web standard
aimsTo ensure consistent character handling across browsers
ensure consistent character handling across platforms
standardize legacy encodings behavior
defines error handling for decoders
error handling for encoders
how text is decoded on the web
how text is encoded on the web
the algorithm for BOM sniffing
the algorithm for decoding a byte stream
the algorithm for encoding a string
the algorithm for getting an encoding from a label
the algorithm for handling invalid byte sequences
the concept of ASCII-compatible encodings
the concept of BOM sniffing
the concept of Big5 encoding
the concept of EUC-KR encoding
the concept of GBK encoding
the concept of ISO-2022-JP encoding
the concept of ISO-8859-15 encoding
the concept of ISO-8859-2 encoding
the concept of Shift_JIS encoding
the concept of UTF-16 encodings
the concept of UTF-16BE encoding
the concept of UTF-16LE encoding
the concept of UTF-8 encoding
the concept of decoders
the concept of encoders
the concept of encoding labels
the concept of legacy single-byte encodings
the concept of replacement character handling
the concept of replacement encoding
the concept of windows-1251 encoding
the concept of windows-1252 encoding
the concept of x-user-defined encoding
the encoding index data structures
the labels used to identify encodings
the mapping between code points and bytes for supported encodings
the set of encodings used on the web
maintainedBy WHATWG
publisher WHATWG
relatedTo HTML Living Standard
surface form: HTML Standard

URL Standard
Unicode
surface form: Unicode Standard
scope HTML user agents
web browsers
web platforms
status Living Standard
title Encoding Standard self-link
url https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
uses Unicode code points

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WHATWG develops Encoding Standard
Streams Standard relatedSpecification Encoding Standard
URL Standard relatedTo Encoding Standard
Encoding Standard title Encoding Standard self-link