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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org>]

Websites have usually lead email in terms of UTF-8 adoption, so I'm not 
sure we can rely on that data.

On 6/30/2016 12:34 AM, Michael Gratton wrote:
> 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>