Sunday, September 05, 2010

#Unicode has 50% of the web traffic

With all the websites relevant to me in Unicode, it is a surprise when I learned that in is only from this August 50% of web traffic is in the Unicode encoding.

Google January 2010

The growth has come particularly from a decrease in the use of older encoding systems used for Western languages. The graph also helps understand why many of the scripts like Devanagari who have had relatively recent changes in the Unicode definitions have so much room for growth. This also gives the impression that people do not have the Unicode fonts that MediaWiki relies on.
Thanks,
     GerardM

1 comment:

Aam Aadmi said...

That's encouraging to hear! In India, the usage of Unicode remains very low.

During my MBA internship with an NGO here, I realized that most people don't even know what Unicode is. Apparently, many of them are used to certain keyboard layouts and prefer to use non-Unicode fonts such as DevLys and KrutiDev for Devanagari. Many Government websites also use non-Unicode fonts.

Hopefully, all this will change as more and more Indian language websites start using Unicode.