Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Henri Sivonen 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 w

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Henri Sivonen 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

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: > On 8/28/13 1:12 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:28:43 PM UTC, Axel Hecht wrote: >> >>> That's rather orthogonal to what you're currently trying to do, but it's >>> also indicating to me that we should remove

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/28/13 1:12 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:28:43 PM UTC, Axel Hecht wrote: That's rather orthogonal to what you're currently trying to do, but it's also indicating to me that we should remove all of those settings from intl.properties, and just leave accept-l

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:28:43 PM UTC, Axel Hecht wrote: > > That's rather orthogonal to what you're currently trying to do, but it's > > also indicating to me that we should remove all of those settings from > > intl.propertie

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:28:43 PM UTC, Axel Hecht wrote: > That's rather orthogonal to what you're currently trying to do, but it's > also indicating to me that we should remove all of those settings from > intl.properties, and just leave accept-lang, and deduce the rest. So how about

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
On 27.02.13 09:30, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: On 22.02.13 18:41, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Feb 22, 2013 5:30 PM, "Axel Hecht" wrote: There's just no other way than post-mortem work. That's one of the reasons why we're not taking arbitrary change

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: > On 22.02.13 18:41, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> On Feb 22, 2013 5:30 PM, "Axel Hecht" wrote: >>> >>> There's just no other way than post-mortem work. That's one of the >> >> reasons why we're not taking arbitrary changesets to ship to any audienc

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Axel Hecht
On 22.02.13 20:02, L. David Baron wrote: On Friday 2013-02-22 16:37 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: I've been finding and, to a lesser extent, reporting and writing patches for bugs where a localization sets the fallback encoding to a value that doesn't suit the purpose of the fallback. In some case

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2013-02-22 16:37 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: > I've been finding and, to a lesser extent, reporting and writing > patches for bugs where a localization sets the fallback encoding to a > value that doesn't suit the purpose of the fallback. In some cases, > there such bogosity in the intl.p

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Axel Hecht
On 22.02.13 18:41, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Feb 22, 2013 5:30 PM, "Axel Hecht" wrote: There's just no other way than post-mortem work. That's one of the reasons why we're not taking arbitrary changesets to ship to any audience beyond aurora and nightly, for beta and release, we got to have tech

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Feb 22, 2013 5:30 PM, "Axel Hecht" wrote: > There's just no other way than post-mortem work. That's one of the reasons why we're not taking arbitrary changesets to ship to any audience beyond aurora and nightly, for beta and release, we got to have technical checks in place. Where should I fil

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Axel Hecht
On 22.02.13 15:37, Henri Sivonen wrote: I've been finding and, to a lesser extent, reporting and writing patches for bugs where a localization sets the fallback encoding to a value that doesn't suit the purpose of the fallback. In some cases, there such bogosity in the intl.properties file (e.g.

Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Henri Sivonen
I've been finding and, to a lesser extent, reporting and writing patches for bugs where a localization sets the fallback encoding to a value that doesn't suit the purpose of the fallback. In some cases, there such bogosity in the intl.properties file (e.g. translation of the word "windows" as part