Re: FYI: Google blog on Unicode

Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> 
> Forwarded from Mark Davis:
> 
>  > There's a blog on Unicode that people may find interesting:
>  > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/unicode-nearing-50-of-web.html
> 
> This is detected actual use, not necessarily what's labeled.
> 
> I hope that this will help getting rid of what's still left of 
> iso-8859-1 in the HTTP spec and in default settings for server 
> implementations.
> ...

The only place where HTTPbis has a normative reference to ISO-8859-1 is 
for the character set defaults when encoding information is missing 
(<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/20>).

So what would be relevant here is the percentage of UTF-8 in use for 
unlabeled content.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 1 February 2010 12:27:06 UTC