Unicode usage level on the web

[MikeGale]

Interesting analysis of the web.

Majority of content is Unicode (January 2012).

http://j.mp/Athi9x

[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?).

[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.