Im wondering if someone can explain exactly what

charset=utf-8


does for the browser? As far as I understand, it tells the browser to use the Unicode table for translating the hexacedimal numbers to characters? Correct?


So this means that I can mix chinese, swedish, english on a webpage and it is all shown correctly?


Am i right or wrong?


Also I read in the specs that utf-8 has a "Code unit size 8 bits "

Exactly what does this mean? It was a while since I read computer science

whats the benefits of using utf-16?

/Henrik