Here's a breakdown of browsers used to save edits over a day on
de.wikipedia.org. I checked de because it's the largest non-English
non-UTF-8-using Wikipedia.
Total posts in the day: 2861
Browsers known to work with editing UTF-8:
MSIE/Win: 1146
Gecko: 966 [549 Windows; 379 Linux/Unix; 31 Mac]
Opera 6+: 331 [291 Windows; 40 Linux]
Konqueror: 216
Safari: 137
total: 2796 (98%)
Browsers which can be problematic with UTF-8:
old Netscape: 25
ELinks: 20 (not tested, but it's a text-mode browser and these tend
to have problems in this area)
MSIE/Mac: 10
Lynx: 4 (text-mode again)
Opera <6: 2
total: 61 (2%)
There's some margin of error; my regexps lost track of 4 hits or so
somewhere in that mess.
I'm actually surprised that the Internet Explorer/Mac quotient is so
low, though it's a pleasant surprise. :)
Anyway, adding a notice and/or doing some extra conversion for those 2%
shouldn't be a huge server burden.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)