Yitzchak Gale wrote:
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.
Note also that all those encodings near the bottom are remaining relatively constant. UTF8 is taking its market share from ASCII and Western European encodings, not so much from other encodings (as yet). As Bryan mentioned, Unicode doesn't have wide acceptance in CJK countries. These days, Japanese websites seem to have finally started to standardize--- in that they use HTTP/HTML headers to say which encoding the pages are in (and generally use JIS or Shift-JIS). This is a big step up from a decade ago when non-commercial sites pretty invariably required fiddling with the browser to get rid of mojibake. Japan hasn't been bitten by the i18n/l10n bug and they don't have a strong F/OSS community to drive adoption either. -- Live well, ~wren