All right, I just want to take a step back.
I don't want you to get lost in all the detail.
I don't want you to feel overwhelmed.
Just remember what we've done...
all we're doing, is we are telling the browser how to convert all the user input in the form, into binary
code.
Remember, a computer can only understand electrical impulses.
As human beings, we just convert those electrical impulses to 1s and 0s.
If there is an electrical impulse, we say it's a 1...
and if there's nothing, we say it's a 0.
So everything the computer understands has to be a combination of these 1s and 0s, these electrical...
inputs.
And with the accept-charset attribute, you have the power as the developer to define what characters...
you want your users to write in your form.
For example, if you don't want them to write Chinese or emojis, why not then include an accept-charset...
attribute of ASCII...
because we know ASCII does not recognize certain or many characters. So that's just an example.
So there you have it.
Just don't get lost in what we are doing.
I know we've gone into a lot of detail on ISO, ASCII, UTF, but really all I'm trying to get across is that...
you as a developer have a lot of power to define the characters that you want to accept on your form.
Most of the time it really doesn't matter because you and I don't care what characters are submitted...
in the form.
And as we've seen, if we just leave it, the UTF-8 accept-charset attribute is the default.
"So Clyde, why have you then given us all this detail?"
I don't know.
Maybe it's just another feather feather ð“†° in your cap ðŸ§¢.
Feather. Cap.
So, hope you're learning a lot. I just wanted to quickly take a step back, because I know it can't seem...
intimidating with all this, you know, character encoding types. But really, most of the time it doesn't
matter.
But you should be patting yourself on the back, because most developers don't even know this kind of
stuff.
So you really are going to be leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else.
Without further ado, let's go on to the next lecture.