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_Unicode_ adoption increased to 87%. At the cost of non-Unicode encodings. UTF16 isn’t good enough for web: even for a content in Ukrainian or Hebrew languages
by Const-me 10y ago
_Unicode_ adoption increased to 87%.
At the cost of non-Unicode encodings.
UTF16 isn’t good enough for web: even for a content in Ukrainian or Hebrew languages, UTF8 saves a sizeable bandwidth because spaces, punctuation marks, newlines, digits, English-inspired HTML tags — in UTF8 they all encode in 1 byte per character, and for the web, bandwidth matters.
- chillacy 10y ago> _Unicode_ adoption increased to 87%. At the cost of non-Unicode encodings. Am I reading that site incorrectly? It says: UTF-8: 87.2%, not unicode. Then down below: " The following character encodings are used by less than 0.1% of the websites" UTF-16 https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding...