One of W3Techs web technology surveys. http://w3techs.com/ 2002-05-06T00:00:00Z 2013 Q-Success <p>This is the May 2013 issue of the monthly W3Techs overview of the most frequently used character encodings.</p><p>You can find the complete and most up-to-date survey at <a href="http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding/all">W3Techs.com</a>.</p><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" align="center"><tr><th>Rank</th><th>Character Encoding</th><th>Usage</th><th>Change</th></tr><tr><td>1.</td><td>UTF-8</td><td>76.4%</td><td>+0.5%</td></tr><tr><td>2.</td><td>ISO-8859-1</td><td>12.2%</td><td>-0.4%</td></tr><tr><td>3.</td><td>Windows-1251</td><td>3.0%</td><td>+0.1%</td></tr><tr><td>4.</td><td>GB2312</td><td>2.3%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>5.</td><td>Shift JIS</td><td>1.3%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6.</td><td>Windows-1252</td><td>1.2%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>7.</td><td>GBK</td><td>0.8%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>8.</td><td>Windows-1256</td><td>0.5%</td><td>-0.1%</td></tr><tr><td>9.</td><td>ISO-8859-2</td><td>0.5%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>10.</td><td>EUC-JP</td><td>0.4%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan=99>Copyright &copy; May 2013 W3Techs.com</td></tr></table> http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding/all Character Encodings May 2013 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z W3Techs.com