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From the arty: When you include ASCII, nearly 80 percent of web documents are in Unicode (UTF-8). ...which indicates that nearly all unicode is UTF-8.
by chalst 15y ago
From the arty: When you include ASCII, nearly 80 percent of web documents are in Unicode (UTF-8).
...which indicates that nearly all unicode is UTF-8.
- sjwright 15y agoCan you find a website that uses a non-UTF-8 Unicode encoding? (Actually now that I think about it, UTF-16 probably makes sense for non-Latin languages and might well be common. Does anyone have any insights here?)
- olavk 15y agoISO-8859-n were pretty common in Europe, because they were the default charset on windows. Just checked the web pages of two major danish newspapers: They use ISO-8859-1. Utf-8 is getting more widespread though.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoISO-8859-n is not Unicode.
- olavk 15y agoThey are considered unicode encodings.
- derleth 15y agoNo, they are not.
- olavk 15y agohttp://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html considers ISO-8859-n character encodings: "Commonly used character encodings on the Web include ISO-8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1"; usable for most Western European languages), ISO-8859-5 ..."
- guard-of-terra 15y agoISO-8859-5 has NEVER been a common encoding on the Web. KOI8-R was, then Windows-1251. Now it's often UTF-8.
- derleth 15y agoBut Latin-1 is not a Unicode encoding.
- sqrt17 15y agoISO-8859-n is not ASCII either, so if your software is not Unicode-aware (or encoding-aware) at all, things will break.
- obtu 15y agoThey aren't the default windows charsets. Windows code pages tend to be close, with differences here and there that are impossible to sniff for.
- EdiX 15y ago> Actually now that I think about it, UTF-16 probably makes sense for non-Latin languages It actually doesn't because of all the HTML tags being ASCII.
- ken 15y agoA few are listed here: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-utf16/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-utf16/all/all