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A comment on UTF-8 Everywhere (2012).

Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by chillacy on Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:10PM (#11934952)
This article was from 4 years ago. Since then, utf 8 adoption has increased from 68% to 87% of the top 10 million websites on Alexa:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_...

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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by Const-me on Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:23PM (#11935746)
_Unicode_ adoption increased to 87%. At the cost of non-Unicode encodings.

UTF16 isn’t good enough for web: even for a content in Ukrainian or Hebrew languages, UTF8 saves a sizeable bandwidth because spaces, punctuation marks, newlines, digits, English-inspired HTML tags — in UTF8 they all encode in 1 byte per character, and for the web, bandwidth matters.

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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by chillacy on Saturday June 25, 2016 @03:06AM (#11975530)
> _Unicode_ adoption increased to 87%. At the cost of non-Unicode encodings.

Am I reading that site incorrectly? It says: UTF-8: 87.2%, not unicode.

Then down below:

" The following character encodings are used by less than 0.1% of the websites"

UTF-16

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding...

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