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Usage of UTF-8 as character encoding broken down by content languages

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using UTF-8 broken down by content languages. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
UTF-8 is used by 99.1% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.
UTF-8 is used by 99.7% of all the websites whose character encoding we know and that use English as content language.

Overall

99.1%

99.7%

99.6%

98.9%

99.3%

99.2%

98.8%

98.5%

99.2%

99.5%

99.6%

99.1%

99.2%

99.1%

100.0%

98.8%

100.0%

98.6%

99.7%

99.6%

98.9%

99.0%

99.8%

99.7%

97.0%

98.3%

99.7%

99.2%

99.6%

99.5%

99.7%

99.9%

99.7%

99.9%

99.7%

99.5%

99.8%

99.0%

100.0%

99.8%

99.9%

100.0%

100.0%

99.8%

99.9%

99.4%

99.9%

99.8%

99.8%

100.0%

100.0%

99.3%

99.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.9%

100.0%

99.9%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.7%

98.8%

99.8%

92.9%

99.3%

100.0%

100.0%

99.6%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

99.5%

100.0%

98.4%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

Sorani, Central Kurdish

100.0%

Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian

100.0%

Lao

100.0%

Irish

94.6%

Kanuri

100.0%

Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

Haitian, Haitian Creole

100.0%

99.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

97.3%

100.0%

Kalaallisut, Greenlandic

100.0%

98.4%

100.0%

100.0%

97.7%

Swiss German, Alemannic, Alsatian

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic

100.0%

Ewe

100.0%

Latin

100.0%

Yiddish

100.0%

Asturian, Bable, Leonese, Asturleonese

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

W3Techs.com, 27 October 2026

Percentages of websites using UTF-8 broken down by content languages

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Technology Brief
UTF-8
Category: Character Encodings
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.
Website: datatracker.ietf.org/...

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