What is charset=utf-8 in HTML

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The Unicode Consortium develops the Unicode Standard. Their goal is to replace the existing character sets with its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF).

You can refer here:
http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_utf8.asp

It is a defined way of how different bytes will be transformed into their according characters by a parser

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