ASCII
ASCII
Both ISO-8859-1 (default in HTML 4.01) and UTF-8 (default in HTML5), are built on ASCII.
ASCII stands for the "American Standard Code for Information Interchange".
It was designed in the early 60's, as a standard character set for computers and electronic devices.
It contains the numbers from 0-9, the upper and lower case English letters from A to Z, and some
special characters.
The character sets used in modern computers, in HTML, and on the Internet, are all based on
ASCII.
The use of ASCII format for Network Interchange was described in 1969.[9] That document was
formally elevated to an Internet Standard in 2015.[10]