161159 - Disabling the request to download language and character sets

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 139248

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Bishop Clark (LC957)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012


Moz should allow me to render all spam and web sites in my default encoding,
because I can't read Chinese-Simplified regardless as to how it's encoded.

Okay.  I speak english, and I read our standard (what, roman?) alphabet.  I also
speak french, but that's not the deal here.  Every now and then, I see a request
in mail or the browser that asks me if I want to download this nifty character
set so that I can display spam or a web page in the character set for which it
was written.

Now, I am sure it's a fine character set, and someone went to a lot of trouble
to bundle it up so that I could download and use it, but it's useless to me; I
neither READ, nor UNDERSTAND the character set, nor do I even speak the language
encoded therein.  While I respect the diverse people who probably enjoy speaking
that language and I'm sure it's a very nice language,

        I CAN'T READ IT.

So.  I don't want Moz to ask me every freakin' day whether I want to download
chinese simplied, or EUC_JP or anything, because it's no good if it does.  I
can't read it.  It's useless to me, and I LIKE my ISO-8859-1 encoding.  I want
everything rendered (badly or well) like that.  





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.wait for chinese .cn domain spam
2.open mail
3.notice, after a huge wait, the chinese simplified download request.

Actual Results:  After a lovely wait (hey, it's mozilla) of a few seconds, the
download request comes up.  I swear a bit, mainly about the delay, find my mouse
and click Cancel.

Expected Results:  It shouldn't freakin' ask me!  It should have a "I'm a dumb
yank and I don't wanna see no international stuff anyway" checkbox so I can
avoid downloading 85 Mb of various encodings that just take up space.

Do I want to download 85 different character encoding add-ons?  If so, why was
it not included in the release package of moz?  

Thank you for listening to my bug report.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

> From Bugzilla Helper:
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
> BuildID:    2002053012

This is fixed in mozilla1.0.1 (bug 139248).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 139248 ***

Comment 2

[marina]

verified as such