647566 - Remove "Unicode" submenu from encoding menu

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Our UTF-16 decoder can detect byte order reliably, so UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE will just confuse users. No other browsers have three choices for UTF-16 family. Safari and IE cannot even select UTF-16 manually. If UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE is absolutely required, users can add them from "Customize List...".
Also UTF-8 is redundant because it's already appear in the highest-level submenu.
Thus we can remove "Unicode" submenu completely, IMO.
Simon, what do you think about this?

Comment 1

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Our UTF-16 decoder can detect byte order reliably, 

This should be true for HTML, but it is not necessarily as reliable for plain-text content....

> so UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE
> will just confuse users. No other browsers have three choices for UTF-16
> family. Safari and IE cannot even select UTF-16 manually. If UTF-16BE or
> UTF-16LE is absolutely required, users can add them from "Customize List...".

....but I'd agree that the use-case for these is sufficiently obscure that they don't need to be in the primary UI, and could be relegated to "Customize...".

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Fixed by bug 805374.