Originally Posted by Pilgrim
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using UTF-8 or iso-8859-1?

LMGTFY

Also have a quick read through this:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/all-about-unicode-utf8-character-sets/



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Google, Febuary 2012
SOURCE: https://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/02/unicode-over-60-percent-of-web.html


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W3Techs.com, February 2017
SOURCE: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding/all

Last edited by id242; 02/22/2017 1:37 PM. Reason: attached images

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