On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
> 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. > Filed as: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910211 -- 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
