>>1099027>If you have a favourite encoding you'd like to use on the internet, chances are you can, just serve it with the correct mime type/use the correct encoding declaration in the header.appreciating them respecting my Shift JIS artworks in this thoughtful way, though it is really yet another example of how a monopoly causes unnatural forms of mass-adoption (UTF-16 is a clown format). But I can remember times when I had to change the meta charset tags on websites in order to be able to read them not as diamonds with question marks, which reflects perfectly what you just said.
Anyways.
>Your argument is fundamentally flawed, because there is no UTF-8 hegemony.There is a UTF-8 hegemony. This is what I was referring, pic related. I'd assume UTF-16 would be counted as "other" in this graph, though it's quite an old graph.