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From:
karl williamson
Date:
January 29, 2010 08:54
Subject:
utf8 growth on the web.
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4B63129A.4060800@khwilliamson.com
Google just published this graph of the growth of utf8-encoded web
pages. I thought that since perl5 is the "duct tape of the internet",
people here might be interested.
I don't know how they distinguish between ascii and utf8 web pages. The
encodings that web pages say they are in are often wrong, so Google has
developed an algorithm to (quickly) figure out the correct value, and
the graph is based on that.
If you don't want to look at the link, the bottom line is that it shows
a nearly exponential growth rate of utf8, at the expense of every other
encoding, but particularly ascii and latin1/15 (which had the most to
lose anyway), with the combination of ascii+utf8 being about 2/3, and
utf8 alone just under half of all web pages.
http://4734020732036341599-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/macchiato/main/growth_of_unicode_on_the_web-1.png?attachauth=ANoY7cpr8IquuulNCyJSN9F0TYmoWJMgwzzfLH4PPyHEPNJkK8LTFxfM43qJ0ptkDAwmabo8YRTer3PlqhcU6acPTmMFOUkCZRUUj3ur36I5DSbnx_b1RjStHvm-igbhuJzHgPQxDNbR9SD_T5N1AY1zKg4NnOU3Ugdy281Ljj_GIX0IIuhvFsAsI3eXKigPPCAb3GLuHB2nmbMQC22vqDWhJ_SQ1-tS4LQ0k2yvxmTcCQG5lYmHVXs%3D&attredirects=0
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