Web Typography
Top 10 Internet Languages
February 19, 2010
According to internetworldstats.com, the top three most used languages on the internet are English, Chinese, and Spanish. The quickest growing language is Chinese, which gained some 1087% during the last decade. Spanish increased by 650% and English by 237%.
Unicode is used in almost 50% of Internet Documents
January 31, 2010
Good News! According to Google Unicode is used on almost half of the Internet pages, which makes it a global text encoding of choice. Google uses version 5.2 of Unicode, which represents a wide range of characters from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, to most living languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Zulu. ASCII, which once dominated the…