- From: Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:26:02 +0900
(2012/04/24 15:48), Henri Sivonen wrote: > Does the OS/2 port need it for interfacing with the system APIs? If > the OS/2 port needs it for interfacing with the system APIs, can we > stop exposing the encoding to the Web and can we stop building the > IBM864 encoder/decoder on non-OS/2 platforms? I think it's a bad idea > to vary the supported set of Web-exposed encodings by operating > system. > > IIRC, some old Mac encodings that are still relevant for dealing with > legacy fonts were hidden from Web content and UTF-7 was made > mail-only. > > If OS/2 doesn't need it for system APIs, can we just remove the IBM864 > support altogether. Gecko for OS/2 will use these IBM encodings via nsIPlatformCharset. But this is Gecko's architecture issue, not web contents. So I think that we can remove these encodings if non-OS/2, or use same way like legacy Mac and UTF-7. > Is the AIX port still relevant? I thought 3.6 was the last version > ported to AIX. I doesn't know. -- Makoto
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