The probability of web content not in UTF-8 is increasingly getting lower and lower. Last I tracked, as of this month, 0.3% of surveyed web pages used Shift JI

The probability of web content not in UTF-8 is increasingly getting lower and lower. Last I tracked, as of this month, 0.3% of surveyed web pages used Shift JIS. It has been declining steadily. I really hope people move to UTF-8. While it is important to understand how the code pages and encodings helped, I think it's a good time to actually start moving a lot of applications to use UTF-8. I am perfectly okay if people want to use UTF-16 (the OG Unicode) and it's extensions alternatively, especially for Asian applications. Yes, historic data preservation requires a different strategy than designing stuff for the future. It is okay to however migrate to these encodings and keep giving old data and software new life.