On 10/15/2013 07:18 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > My (naive) understanding is that the Windows has its own API that does > what ICU does. I believe that Internet Explorer 11 is an existence > proof of that. If we used the Windows API on Windows, maybe we could > avoid building ICU altogether on Windows. Since that accounts to 90+% > of our users, that would almost make it "problem solved" all on its > own even if we did nothing else.
This is a non-trivial amount of work to do, basically (I'm told by Norbert) amounting to a rewrite of the entire system. And then you have webpages working differently on different OSes, something best avoided if possible (and it's of course possible here). Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
