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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:14:39PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> 
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:

[...]

> >That's because it has been enshrined by the Unicode Consortium [...]

> I don't think they like BOM. After all they named it 'ZERO WIDTH
> NO-BREAK SPACE'.

[chuckle] Yeah. But they should have just thrown it out. It's doing
damage for no appreciable win. Corporations should have to pay back
for the collateral they produce by pushing their agenda.

[...]

> The only way to fix this is probably to edit the source.

There's some hope. Have a look at the intl subcategory in about:config[1]
(especially at intl.locale.matchOS and/or general.useragent.locale),
but also intl.accept.charsets (it is a list, might be prioritized).

I don't feel like poking in the browser mud at the moment -- I'm
deeply in need of something more rewarding, sorry :-/

> I have a very old iceape that actually gets it right. An older
> version had a 'remove all bookmarks' button, which no longer exists.
> With iceweazel one actually has to create a bookmark to switch
> javascript on and of (the plug-in for this does not work).
> And with jesie's apache there is no longer a default mime-type or
> cern-meta module because _NO_ _ONE_ uses this any more.
> Apparently I'm a figment of my own imagination.

You don't exist. If that's any consolation, I don't exist either.

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries#Intl.

hth
- -- tomás
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