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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 <klappn...@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?
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