Re: FYI: Google blog on Unicode

From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Fri Jan 29 2010 - 09:06:55 CST

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    It is encodings determined by a detection algorithm. The declarations
    for encodings (and language) are far too unreliable to be depended on.
    The detection algorithm itself is fairly complex, but quite fast and
    compact.

    Mark

    On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 21:38, Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org> wrote:
    > On 28/01/2010 10:50, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
    >>
    >> There's a blog on Unicode that people may find interesting:
    >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/unicode-nearing-50-of-web.html
    >>
    >> (The graph on Unicode is too small; until they get that fixed, I have
    >> the large one on http://www.macchiato.com/)
    >>
    >> Mark
    >
    > What exactly is this counting? Encodings declared internally in web-pages?
    > Encodings declared in HTTP headers? Encodings determined by auto-detection?
    > Some combination of the above?
    >
    > --
    > Simon Montagu
    > Mozilla internationalization
    > סיימון מונטגיו
    >
    >



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