One of W3Techs web technology surveys. https://w3techs.com/ 2002-05-06T00:00:00Z 2026 Q-Success <p>This is the April 2026 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="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding">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>98.9%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2.</td><td>ISO-8859-1</td><td>0.9%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>3.</td><td>Windows-1252</td><td>0.3%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4.</td><td>Windows-1251</td><td>0.2%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>5.</td><td>EUC-JP</td><td>0.1%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6.</td><td>Shift JIS</td><td>0.1%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>7.</td><td>EUC-KR</td><td>0.1%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan=99>Copyright &copy; April 2026 W3Techs.com</td></tr></table> https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding Character Encodings April 2026 2026-04-01T00:00:00Z W3Techs.com