Encoding, but obviously not language, should be provided explicitly as metadata (e.g. Content-Type HTTP header). Also, most of content available on the web is a

Encoding, but obviously not language, should be provided explicitly as metadata (e.g. Content-Type HTTP header). Also, most of content available on the web is already UTF-8 (65.9% according to a recent survey[1]). [1] http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-utf8/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-utf8/all/all