- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:49:02 +0300
- To: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
- Cc: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Leif Halvard Silli" <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com>, "Martin_J=2E_D=FCrst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>, "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, "Larry Masinter" <masinter@adobe.com>
On Oct 12, 2009, at 16:02, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > and vietnamese is a difficult langauge, since there isn't any one > dominant > legacy enncoding, would need soem sort of suto detect mechanism, > assuming > web browsers actually supported all the key legacy encodings, which > form > memory they don't. The Vietnamese localization of Firefox defaults to UTF-8 and no heuristic detector: http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/vi/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties For comparison, Japanese, Russian and Ukranian have a heuristic detector turned on by default: http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/ja/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/ru/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/uk/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties (Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese don't, BTW.) Query of interest: http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/find?string=global%2Fintl.properties&tree=l10n-mozilla1.9.1&hint= In various Indian locales, the language itself does not use the Latin alphabet but the default is still Windows-1252: http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/hi-IN/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/bn-IN/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/gu-IN/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla1.9.1/source/pa-IN/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties Note that ISO-8859-1 as the default really means Windows-1252. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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