1068510 - React to the removal of ARMSCII8

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Bug 1067911 removed ARMSCII8. My understanding is that non-Gecko-based software has never supported this encoding except unknowingly via font hacks, so even though Thunderbird previously offered this encoding in the message compose encoding menu, I think Thunderbird should not keep this encoding.

comm-central should either
 1) Remove this encoding form charsetalias.properties and the like. (Preferred.)
OR
 2) Import the removed encoding into comm-central.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/2P5kCJJS_WI

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

There's no refs to this in comm-central anymore. And I agree we shouldn't import the encoder.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I was wrong - mxr lied. 
Leave out the 8 and you get some hits, add the -8 and there are none: 
<http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=ARMSCII&find=&findi=&filter=^[^\0]*%24&hitlimit=&tree=comm-central>

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: bug1068510_react_remove_ARMSCII8.patch

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/2843a3e7968b -> FIXED