Hello monks, Can someone of you please explain to me as simple as he can the difference between
print header( -charset=>'utf8' );
and
print start_html( -charset=>'utf8' );

What they do exactly? I beleive the HTTP header tells the cleint browser that he is about to transit to him all the pages data to utf-8 right? So why we have to respecify the same thing in the HTML header as well? Isnt it one time enough? What exactly print start_html( -charset=>'utf8' ) does that header doesnt?Please tell em the differences.

Also iam havign some diufficulty understaning encodings. I wuld be gratefull if you can put it is simple words that too.
As i understand it so far i beleive that data is data and encodinfs are actually differents ways of storing/viewing data. is this correct? But why the sue of so many encodings?

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