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Usage of character encodings broken down by social widgets

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by social widgets. Cross-technology reports only include technologies with more than 1% usage to ensure statistical significance of the results. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

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UTF-8 is used by 76.1% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.
UTF-8 is used by 86.5% of all the websites whose character encoding we know and that use Facebook as social widget.

UTF-8

76.1%

86.5%

87.0%

90.7%

82.8%

93.4%

96.0%

96.3%

47.8%

93.1%

89.9%

85.5%

91.9%

64.9%

94.6%

80.3%

ISO-8859-1

12.1%

8.6%

8.3%

6.0%

13.0%

5.6%

3.5%

3.2%

0.0%

5.9%

7.6%

10.5%

6.7%

0.1%

4.5%

0.0%

Windows-1251

3.1%

1.2%

1.8%

1.0%

1.1%

0.2%

0.1%

0.0%

0.1%

0.3%

0.5%

0.2%

34.9%

0.1%

19.5%

GB2312

2.6%

0.0%

39.3%

0.0%

Shift JIS

1.4%

0.5%

0.3%

0.7%

0.1%

0.0%

0.4%

0.0%

Windows-1252

1.3%

0.6%

0.7%

0.4%

1.3%

0.4%

0.2%

0.3%

0.0%

0.5%

0.6%

0.5%

0.0%

0.4%

0.0%

W3Techs.com, 22 May 2013

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Percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by social widgets

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Character Encodings
A character encoding system assigns a computer-internal representation (e.g. a number) to every character of an alphabet.

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