Re: [gmime-devel] Encoding headers: Is UTF-8 a sane default now?

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org> 
wrote:
> I wish there was a good way of figuring out which charsets are still 
> in common use and widely supported (at least as far as decoding is 
> concerned).

After a bit of Googling, I found some vaguely applicable references:

- Current data for web sites: 
<https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding/all>
- HTML5 default encodings by language (scroll down to the table): 
<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing>
- 2008 data for mobile devices: 
<https://mobiforge.com/design-development/character-encoding-issues-and-mobile-web>

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