"This site is dedicated to the great old one, who should return from his slumber to take over the U.S. government and make this country a whole hell of a lot better as the leader of our executive branch. Or destroy it and drive everyone insane, kill us all, or something really nasty! Remember, Cthulhu for President, why vote for the lesser of two evils?"
First a universal way is described; it allows you to enter any characters into a document. Since the universal way is somewhat complicated, you may consider using simpler ways if you only need a restricted character repertoire (such as ASCII characters and Cyrillic or Greek letters).
Even if you are not a software developer who doesn't understand Unicode, Unicode is still important. Especially on the web where there is quite some trouble with character encoding.
Windows-1252 is the encoding that is nearly equivalent to the http's default encoding of iso-8859-1, but it differs in twenty seven different ways, two of which are evident here.
The A.V Club recently spoke with Nuñez about his ribald past as a game-show contestant, his infamous kiss with Steve Carell and his character's life as a conservative gay accountant in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
I've been looking for a clear explanation of why it's important to label Web pages with character encodings. I want it because I want something to point to when emailing Web authors who don't when their pages cause problems for me (and my default of UTF-8, which I chose primarily so that I write UTF-8 in Mozilla's Bugzilla, which is still broken). I couldn't find one, so here it is. I've chosen to be a little bit loose with terminology in order to get the point across more clearly.