The charset in html

What is character encoding ? 
* ASNI (Windows-1252) was the original windows character set.
   ASNI is indectial to ISO-8859-1 aceept that ASNI has 32 extra
   characters.

* Because ANSI and ISO-8859-1 were so limited, html 4 also
   submitted UTF-8.

The html charset attribute 
* To display an html page correctly, a web browser must know that
   character set used in the page.

* This is specified in the tag of <meta>.