On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > What phrase best approximates the areas of the world where _today_ > UAs are > shipping with a 1252 default encoding? "locales that predominantly use the Latin script" Or you could say: "locales that predominantly use the Latin script, and whose primary languages are completely or almost completely covered by Windows-1252." I'm not sure if browsers today use ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-7 or ISO-8859-10 (or their Windows equivalents) as the default encoding for any locale, but if they do, it is surely not be based on a judgment that countries using those scripts are not "Western". Few would consider Albania (whose primary language is covered adequately by Windows-1252) to be somehow more "Western" than Malta, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland or Slovenia (whose languages are not). Note: in the browsers that vary this, it is always determined by "locale", not "demographic" (which is not a computing concept). I don't think using the term "demographic" makes sense in this context. Regards, Maciej
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