> As you can see, Unicode has experienced an 800 percent increase in “market share” since 2006.
> The more documents that are in Unicode, the less likely you will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.
Hmm. Well, I know that's true in theory, but my personal experience is that the occurrence of mojibake has increased lately. I even wrote about it here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075010
I think a lot of new code tends to just assume UTF-8, and if you try and use something else that's your problem (I know I do this). Older code had to be able to detect encodings.
> The more documents that are in Unicode, the less likely you will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.
Hmm. Well, I know that's true in theory, but my personal experience is that the occurrence of mojibake has increased lately. I even wrote about it here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075010