Re: Running heuristic encoding detection

Henri Sivonen, Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:36:14 +0200: [...]
> Interestingly, information provided by the bug reporter suggests that 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620106#c12 that Opera, 
> Chrome and IE8 modify their incrementalism behavior when the 
> heuristic detector is enabled. Before I write a set of test cases and 
> start poking the other browsers, I was wondering if someone on this 
> list can already confirm the nature of the behavior.

In Opera 10.5 on Mac OS X Leopard, the results of the 4 tests (in the 
Attachments section of that bug report) depends on the localization of 
Opera:

* Norwegian localization activated: EUC encoding *not* detected
  (Thus, in attachment.cgi?id=500769, the script runs *once*.)
* Japanese localization activated: EUC encoding *is* detected
  (Thus, in attachment.cgi?id=500769, the script runs *twice*.)

As reported in October 2009 Safari {now tested version 5.0.3 
(5533.19.4) on Mac OS X Leopard} does not seem to have any such link to 
the localization. [1] Did not have oportutinity to test Chrome for the 
moment. (As for Windows: when I get myself a 
multi-locale/multi-localization version of Windows 7, I can do more 
tests ...)

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Oct/0460
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leif halvard silli