RE:

Mark's Unicode conf talks are available at:

http://www.macchiato.com/slides/globalization_news.pdf

And 

http://www.macchiato.com/slides/unicode_at_google.pdf

RI

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Richard Ishida
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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-international-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag
> Sent: 05 January 2007 23:08
> To: John O'Conner
> Cc: iris garden; www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Re: 
> 
> 
> On 1/5/2007 1:11 PM, John O'Conner wrote:
> >
> > iris garden wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I want to ask please about the Unicode (utf-8) distribution on the 
> >> Internet, i.e. any statistics that shows the percentage of 
> websites 
> >> world-wide that uses Unicode compared to other types of encoding?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Iris
> >
> > I believe that Mark Davis (working with both the Unicode Consortium 
> > and Google) may have provided some of that information in 
> his recent 
> > Unicode Conference session. You might want to find and look at that 
> > session's slide material.
> I tried just now to make Mark aware of this question, but 
> he's apparently not reading mail this week. But John's 
> suggestion is a good one, that's where I would start looking.
> 
> In conversation he's told me that the percentage is 
> definitely growing and had reached an interestingly large 
> figure for something as diverse as the web. But it was late 
> during the party celebrating the Unicode 5.0 book launch and 
> I can't remember the actual number and won't try to guess ;-)
> 
> A./
> >
> > Regards,
> > John O'Conner
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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