Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
In general, Unicode uptake is increasing rapidly: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/unicode-nearing-50-of-web.html
These Google graphs are the oft-quoted source of Unicode's growing dominance. But the data for those graphs is taken from Google's own web indexing. Google is a U.S. company that appears to have a strong Western culture bias - viz. their recent high-profile struggles with China. Google is far from being the dominant market leader in CJK countries that they are in Western countries. Their level of understanding of those markets is clearly not the same. It could be this really is true for CJK countries as well, or it could be that the data is skewed by Google's web indexing methods. I won't believe that source until it is highly corroborated with data and opinions that are native to CJK countries, from sources that do not have a vested interest in Unicode adoption. What we have heard in the past from members of our own community in CJK countries does not agree at all with Google's claims, but that may be changing. It would be great to hear more from them. Regards, Yitz