Re: [whatwg] Guessing the fallback encoding from the top-level domain name before trying to guess from the browser localization

2014-02-26 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: What have you learnt so far? I've learned that I've misattributed the cause of high frequency of character encoding menu usage in the case of the Traditional Chinese localization. We've been shipping after the wrong fallback

Re: [whatwg] Guessing the fallback encoding from the top-level domain name before trying to guess from the browser localization

2014-02-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: The correlation should be at least as high, as far as I can tell. Logically, yes, for most parts of the world. Or maybe a 50%/50% experiment with that as the first 50% and the default coming from the TLD instead of the UI

Re: [whatwg] Guessing the fallback encoding from the top-level domain name before trying to guess from the browser localization

2014-02-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Henri Sivonen wrote: Considering that the encoding of the content browsed is not really a function of the UI localization of the browser, though the two are often correlated, I have developed a patch for Firefox to make the guess based on the top-level domain name of

[whatwg] Guessing the fallback encoding from the top-level domain name before trying to guess from the browser localization

2013-12-19 Thread Henri Sivonen
(Posted to whatwg and www-international but not cross-posted, because cross-posting would be against the whatwg list rules.) Currently, the main source of fallback encoding (the encoding used for text/html and text/plain in the absence of a site-supplied encoding label) is that the UI