Re: Replacement of charsetalias.properties file.

On 14.11.10 15:29, Jay wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> Could you tell me how the charset alias works now?
>
> Let me give you some background why I wanted to know. Previously, I
> have written a small utility that runs on Mac OS X which tinkers the
> charsetalias.properties file a bit to handle many "big5-HKSCS" encoded
> web sites that declared themselves incorrectly as "big5". It simply
> replaces the target encoding of big5 with big5-HKSCS instead. As big5-
> HKSCS is a superset of big5, it shows big5 encoded site correctly as
> well as misconfigured big5-HKSCS sites. I have just downloaded Firefox
> 4.0 beta 7 and discovered that the charsetalias.properties file is no
> longer there. Could you tell me how the charset handling works in
> Gecko 2.0?
>
> My little utility can be downloaded from here:
> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19216/i-speak-cantonese

That moved into the compiled code, 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563536.

No idea if there's anything left that allows you to tweak it.

That said, is there a bug filed on what you're trying to fix? Add-ons 
like yours sound like something we shouldn't need.

Axel