The meta tag is used to display the meta description of the website, and it shows the author's names page descriptions and gives information on what the website is about. Along with these, it also specifies the data types, character encoding, etc. A character set, that is, charset, defines the character encoding of an HTML document. UTF stands for Universal character set Transformation Format, and 8 denotes the number of bits. It can encode all characters of Unicode. Encoding means transforming machine code to a human-readable format and vice versa in the browser. This is the significance of UTF-8.