Encoding and Webpages and utf8?

[digitaliarp]

I already know that utf is for "How I store it" , and it has benefit cause it has a variable length which can be useful for web.Q#11) when I declare \[code\]<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />\[/code\]is it for

• How the html file itself is stored in my hard drive ?
• Or - how should the document should be transmitted to the client ( every char in document will be downloaded as a utf 8 char?)
• Or - when a user will fill a form and submit - How should the browser transmit to the server each char in the form input+html

Q#22) if utf-8 can contain it all , why I sometime see \[code\]charset=windows-1255"\[/code\] ? why they don't always use \[code\]utf8\[/code\] and having fun ?