26240 - Need a service to map charset name to language

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[nhottanscp]

We need a service to map a charset name to a language. This is needed by libmime 
to generate LANG attribute (bug 26182).
For example, "ISO-2022-JP" to be mapped to "ja".

Comment 1

[cata]

Ok. This will be in this afternoon.

The new API will be:
NS_IMETHOD nsICharsetConverterManager::GetCharsetLangGroup(nsString * aCharset, 
nsIAtom ** aLangGroup);

The data will be stored in extensible string bundles, default file:
/mozilla/intl/uconv/src/charsetData.properties

Data format:

shift_jis.langGroup = ja

Initial data will be the table from 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/gfx/src/nsDeviceContext.cpp#636

Suggestions? Ideas?

Q: Are we happy with the term "LangGroup" or maybe I should use "Language" or 
"LanguageGroup"?

Comment 2

[cata]

Erik should be cc on this.

Comment 3

[Erik van der Poel]

"LangGroup" sounds fine to me. Thanks!

Comment 4

[cata]

Done.