[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 36529] [Qt] Compilation error on Qt for Embedded Linux built with -qconfig medium

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36529





--- Comment #10 from Simon Hausmann <hausmann at webkit.org>  2010-03-28 13:15:01 PST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > (From update of attachment 51494 [details] [details])
> > The patch itself is fine, but I don't think we should add these defines, as
> > WebKit cannot be used without codecs. Therefore the right thing to do is to
> > disable the compilation of WebKit altogether if Qt is compiled with
> > QT_NO_TEXTCODEC.
> 
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > (In reply to comment #6)
> > I'm wondering about this one, too. The API is rendered almost useless if it's
> > not possible to access the actions. There isn't much you can do with WebKit if
> > you don't have QAction objects.
> > 
> > Tasuku, what's the use-case for this? Shouldn't WebKit be disabled in this
> > configuration instead?
> 
> From a general browser point of view, WebKit is useless without these two
> features. On the other hand, for people who uses WebKit as a platform for html
> and javascript apps, it can be useful even if such features are not available.
> WebKit should be enabled as much as possible.

Even if you just want to display html and run JavaScript you're going to need
text codecs, to properly convert the 8-bit input into unicode.

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