> _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...
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.