- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:26:13 -0400
- To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Cc: Yuan Chao <yuanchao@gmail.com>, "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>, Chinese HTML Interest Group <public-html-ig-zh@w3.org>
One comment first: 亂碼 are not “random characters”; they are most often the symptom of an encoding or decoding failure, so while I have not tried to verify Kenny’s results, I am in complete agreement that how he attacked the problem is the correct way. (I used to have to do this on several occasions, and the way I did it was no different than how Kenny has done it.) 2012/4/21 Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>: [...] > What should the Big5 mapping be? If it is like the conservative Big5 that > Opera currently supports, that really won't help Taiwan sites and users at > all. What Firefox does is also not that great, so it would have to be a new > mapping that no browser has ever supported so far. Personally speaking, I’d say that Big5 has always been a mess and it is still a mess, and the only sane way to solve this problem is to expose the underlying variants of Big5 in the encoding selection menu. Even if some sort of statistical AI technique were used there will still be occasions where what the machine chooses will be wrong. Just let the user choose if something doesn’t work. > -- > Philip Jägenstedt > Core Developer > Opera Software > -- cheers, -ambrose <http://gniw.ca>
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