On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
> If I were starting such a research project, I'd start by testing > hypotheses about TLD correlation with legacy encodings. The first thing I'd > like to test would be whether it would be an improvement to make builds > that have Traditional Chinese as the UI language use gbk (as opposed to > big5) as the fallback encoding when browsing content loaded from a .cn > domain. > To elaborate, we could first have a lookup table from country TLDs to legacy encodings and then only as a second step would use the lookup from the UI localization to legacy encodings for TLDs that don't have a strong country affiliation. So for example, we'd map .cn to gbk, .tw to big5, .ru to windows-1251 and .de, .fr, .se, .nl, .fi etc. to windows-1252, but for .com, .org and such we'd base the guess on the UI locale like today but using a less brittle way of managing the mapping. But anyway, that would be improving the guessing instead of just fixing how the current guessing mechanism is a managed. I don't want better to be a blocker for good here. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
