(2012/04/24 15:48), Henri Sivonen wrote:
Does the OS/2 port need it for interfacing with the system APIs? If
the OS/2 port needs it for interfacing with the system APIs, can we
stop exposing the encoding to the Web and can we stop building the
IBM864 encoder/decoder on non-OS/2 platforms? I think it's a bad idea
to vary the supported set of Web-exposed encodings by operating
system.
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IIRC, some old Mac encodings that are still relevant for dealing with
legacy fonts were hidden from Web content and UTF-7 was made
mail-only.
If OS/2 doesn't need it for system APIs, can we just remove the IBM864
support altogether.
Gecko for OS/2 will use these IBM encodings via nsIPlatformCharset. But
this is Gecko's architecture issue, not web contents.
So I think that we can remove these encodings if non-OS/2, or use same
way like legacy Mac and UTF-7.
Is the AIX port still relevant? I thought 3.6 was the last version
ported to AIX.
I doesn't know.
-- Makoto
