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28 May 2007

Yahoo and Google Survey

A survey of doctype and encoding usage across a couple of Yahoo and Google’s international locales:

Yahoo!
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Yahoo! Taiwan
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict (but mixes in some XHTML syntax).
- Encoding specified? Yes. BIG5 (legacy traditional Chinese encoding).

Yahoo! Japan
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. EUC-JP (legacy Japanese encoding).

Yahoo! China
- Doctype? Yes. XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- Encoding specified? Yes. GB2312 (legacy simplified Chinese encoding).

Google
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Google Taiwan
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Google Japan
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict (but mixes in some XHTML syntax).
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Google China
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

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