Unicode usage level on the web

Posted:
Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:42 pm
by MikeGale
Interesting analysis of the web.
Majority of content is Unicode (January 2012).
http://j.mp/Athi9x
Re: Unicode usage level on the web

Posted:
Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:27 pm
by Albert Wiersch
Thanks Mike... good article & good news.
This prompted me to comment out the 'iso-8859-1' related entries in the HTML inserter in CSE HTML Validator. I don't see a good enough reason to keep them, but do have a good reason to remove them (why use them when you can use UTF-8?).
Re: Unicode usage level on the web

Posted:
Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:08 pm
by MikeGale
Agreed utf-8 is the way to go.
Having said that I encounter a problem fairly often. People who don't understand Unicode often use an editor that isn't up to date on a web page. Result, a competent piece of markup gets broken. Worse, the problem might be hard to spot. My answer is to say, use a validator and officially wash my hands of any damage that might be caused.