At Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:19:32 +0900, Nick May wrote:
>
> Imagine an ultra high-volume text-based site like Slashdot were to be
> run in Japanese. Peak capacity and bandwidth costs are VERY relevant
> concerns. What encoding would be sensible for it to use to serve to
> ordinary browsers? Given 1,2 and 3 above, EUCJP fits the bill FAR
> better than UTF-8.
High-bandwidth sites like Slashdot use mod_gzip, compressing on the
fly. Considering the verbosity of HTML this is a win no matter what
encoding you use, and basically eliminates any size differences in the
encodings.
In fact, http://slashdot.jp/ uses UTF-8 as its encoding.
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Alex
Received on Fri Jan 13 03:50:50 2006