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.
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
WHATWG specification
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character encoding specification ⓘ web standard ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure consistent character handling across browsers
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ensure consistent character handling across platforms ⓘ standardize legacy encodings behavior ⓘ |
| defines |
error handling for decoders
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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
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surface form:
HTML Standard
URL Standard ⓘ Unicode ⓘ
surface form:
Unicode Standard
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| scope |
HTML user agents
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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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