177407 - encoder/decoder for BOCU Unicode compression

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[bobj]

See, Unicode Technical Note #6, "BOCU-1: MIME-Compatible Unicode Compression"
(http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn6/)

BOCU seems to be a big win for non-Latin text over UTF-8.  It is already
registered as a IANA charset.

All of the Mozilla data files (dtd, xml, js, properties) are stored in UTF-8.
Are there places where'd it make sense for Netscape to store in BOCU-1 instead
of UTF-8?

Maybe the sources could remain in UTF-8 (so we could use existing tools
for modifying the files) and BOCU compression applied at build time?

The Tech Note includes sample BOCU code.

Comment 1

[Roy Yokoyama]

Design issue. assign to ftang for now

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

cool stuff. future

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

estimate of work. 3-7 days to develop.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

what a hack. I have not touch mozilla code for 2 years. I didn't read these bugs
for 2 years. And they are still there. Just close them as won't fix to clean up.

Comment 5

[Travis Chase]

Mass Re-assigning bugs that Frank Tang Closed on March 1st Spam is his fault

Mass Re-Open to follow

Comment 6

[Travis Chase]

Mass Bug Re-Open of bugs Frank Tang Closed with no good reason. Spam is his
fault not my own

Comment 7

[Travis Chase]

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

Comment 8

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

BOCU doesn't have enough usage to be worth including in Mozilla. 
A large part of the mozilla files are inside zip compressed file, and the one
that aren't should be only the one that can be modified.