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Re: [Json] BOMs

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 18 November 2013 16:22 UTC

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Henry S. Thompson scripsit:

> My sense is that you'll see more UTF-16 BOMs than anything else.

I agree.

> UTF-32 support seems to be waning (at least in the browsers), but
> UTF-16 is in pretty widespread use.  John, do you think you can fool
> google into counting BOMs for us?

No, because Google transcodes everything into UTF-8 as soon as it starts
to process it.  What I can say (auct. Mark Davis) is that UTF-16 documents
in all formats represent much less than 0.1% of the searchable Web.
By contrast, UTF-8 (including ASCII) amounts to 80% of it.  This reflects
actual rather than declared encodings, and is as of January 2012.

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