At 11:48 04/07/30 +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote: >A recent email on Windows-31J led me to take a look at the > >http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html > >There are a few problems with the document. > >It lists a 7-year-old statistics (probably taken with a not-so-good sample >even then) of the frequency of character encodings used on the web. The >web and the internet have changed a lot since 1997 and I'm afraid the >statistics gives a misleading impression to some people that Windows-1252 >can cover the vast majority of web pages. It'd be nice to replace that >stat. with a recent one. If it's not easy to find a new statistics, I >think either that part has to be removed or a prominent disclaimer should >be added. I have added a warning at the top of the page. Regards, Martin. >Another problem is that it uses 'kr' (the country code for Republic of >Korea/South Korea) in place of 'ko' (the language code for Korean). >I also found that Chinese (both zh-TW and zh-CN) is not listed (it's a >partial list, but still not listing Chinese seems a bit strange.) > >JungshikReceived on Friday, 30 July 2004 01:30:32 GMT
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