What corporate Web sites are using Unicode right now?
What corporate Web sites are using Unicode right now?
It it sometimes assumed that Unicode is a popular encoding "behind the scenes" but rarely used on the home pages of major corporate Web sites. While most major corporate Web sites have yet to adopt Unicode as their default encodings, there are signs of change.
The home pages of the following Web sites all currently use Unicode:
To find out if a Web page is using Unicode, simply select the "encoding" feature of your Web browser, as shown below (using Internet Explorer):
Many more companies do rely on Unicode "behind the scenes" -- that is, within their content databases. For example, a content database may hold all text in Unicode format; when the content is pulled to the Web server, it is transcoded into the native encoding.
Following are links to related W3C content:
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