[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 22339] Support Indian web sites with EOT by on-the-fly transcoding to Unicode

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22339





------- Comment #5 from darin at apple.com  2009-01-08 09:10 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> As for converting back to the byte streama(using windows-1252 - the claimed
> encoding of Indian pages) and then back again to Unicode (using a font-specific
> encoding), I'm afraid it's too a roundabout way.  Maciej's original idea in the
> webkit list was to treat the transcoding as a form of 'text-transform'. That
> means working entirely in the Unicode space.

I don't agree. I believe the point here is that we have decoded the byte stream
incorrectly because we didn't realize the font requires a particular encoding.
We need to undo that and then re-decode.

You've stated that this should be done entirely in the Unicode space, but I
don't agree. This is working around incorrect decoding, so what it should be
doing is new decoding. I agree that it's transcoding, but the cleanest model is
to use re-decoding.


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