On Dec 6, 2012, at 18:36 , Robert O'Callahan wrote: > How hard would it be to incrementally download data for the locales we need? > > It seems that most users won't ever need the collation tables for Chinese, > for example. If we could figure out a way to make them available > just-in-time, that could be a win. > > I assume the relevant APIs are synchronous, so this might not be trivial.
This sounds like non-trivial surgery on ICU. Yes, the APIs are synchronous. And we don't know whether the time when a user stumbles onto a Chinese web page that requests Chinese collation is really the best time to download the data - at that time the user may be roaming in China with a U.S. data plan... Norbert _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
