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| Google January 2010 |
The growth has come particularly from a decrease in the use of older encoding systems used for Western languages. The graph also helps understand why many of the scripts like Devanagari who have had relatively recent changes in the Unicode definitions have so much room for growth. This also gives the impression that people do not have the Unicode fonts that MediaWiki relies on.
Thanks,
GerardM
1 comment:
That's encouraging to hear! In India, the usage of Unicode remains very low.
During my MBA internship with an NGO here, I realized that most people don't even know what Unicode is. Apparently, many of them are used to certain keyboard layouts and prefer to use non-Unicode fonts such as DevLys and KrutiDev for Devanagari. Many Government websites also use non-Unicode fonts.
Hopefully, all this will change as more and more Indian language websites start using Unicode.
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