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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: [partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset |
| Date | 2016-05-12 08:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rxSie-7O-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <rxzSh-6v5-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <rxCdu-zl-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <rxDjc-1to-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <rxFuG-3yH-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <rxFEm-3D1-15@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:55:31PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:43:50 +0200
> Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> wrote:
>
> > According to this (yet probably dated ) page:
> > http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html
> > universal_charset_detector might help if it were enabled by default.
>
> Just looked at the above page again, and noticed that the "japanese"
> charset detector also supports UTF-8 and cp1252. So I tried to set
> intl.charset.detector to "ja_parallel_state_machine" and actually at least
> the minimal utf-8 text file I just tested (which contains no more than a
> bunch of german umlaut characters) is now displayed correctly.
This is all pretty unfortunate: we're replacing simple, understandable
mechanisms ("hey, Firefox: on my computer all text files are supposed
to be utf-8, promised") by complex heuristics (which, as a very last
resort are cool, mind you: "dunno what that file is: try to make a guess,
please"), but *not* as the up-front decision procedure. Besides, who
knows what vulnerabilities lurk in there?
Hey, Mozilla! If you are listening (do you listen at all?) Where is
your user's sovereignity?
- -- t
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Iceweasel uses wrong charset Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-05-11 11:00 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-05-11 11:20 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-05-11 11:20 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset err404@free.fr - 2016-05-11 11:30 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-05-11 12:00 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-05-13 12:10 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-05-11 12:00 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-11 12:20 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-05-11 12:40 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-11 12:50 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-05-11 15:20 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-05-11 18:50 +0200
[partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-05-11 19:00 +0200
Re: [partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-12 08:30 +0200
Re: [partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-05-12 18:00 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-05-13 12:20 +0200
Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-11 12:30 +0200
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