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I'm a user of such a language (Arabic) and by now all websites I care about use utf8, so the character encoding is a problem from the past as far as I'm concern

by hasenj 16y ago

I'm a user of such a language (Arabic) and by now all websites I care about use utf8, so the character encoding is a problem from the past as far as I'm concerned. I'd be really surprised if there are still sites that don't use utf8.

DarkShikari 16y ago
Japan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.
- hasenj 16y ago
  I visit some Japanese websites from time to time (not that I can read or anything .. just clicking on links) and don't remember having many problems with weird characters.
  - yuhong 16y ago
    This is because this is required if the site uses a legacy character encoding AND it is declared incorrectly or not at all.