769599 - Enable the Character Encoding menu for Chinese and Korean by default (Cyrillic locales too?)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Firefox 16.0a1 (2012-06-28)
Device: Galaxy Nexus
OS: Android 4.0.2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Change OS language to Japanese
2. Open Fennec
3. Go to Menu > Setting > Character Encoding and verify if the 1st option (Show Menu) is selected
4. Repeat all steps by changing the OS language at step 1 to Chinese and Korean

Expected result:
For all languages with special characters, the Character Encoding menu is enabled by default.

Actual result:
The Character Encoding menu is enabled by default just for Japanese.

Note:
Cyrillic locales should have the same facility too.

Comment 1

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Japanese is the only that has multiple for it's language; I think the bigger problem is that we should allow for more encoding.

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I'm not sure this should be consistent per script or latin-ishness of that.

This is more about how bad sites in the affected regions are in sending the correct http headers.

Note, the source code is http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-mozilla-beta/search?string=showCharacterEncoding&find=mobile%2Fandroid&findi=&filter=^[^\0]*%24&hitlimit=&tree=l10n-mozilla-beta

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

What's the rationale for enabling this for Chinese and Korean? In practice, there's one Korean legacy encoding (EUC-KR), one zh-TW legacy encoding (Big5) and one zh-CN legacy encoding (GBK).

We should not enable the menu in more locales by default without a clear need.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I agree with your explanation Henri.