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Mar 042010
 

What is the difference between encoding and charset?

Answer:

Charset defines the set of characters you can use, e.g. Unicode, there is only one universal Unicode Charset.

Encoding defines how the characters are stored, e.g. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both valid encoding scheme for Unicode.

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