Re: Re: [Galeon-devel] Re: [Usability]Galeon 2 usability - A few ideas on menus

Il gio, 2002-10-17 alle 20:42, Yanko Kaneti ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 14:16, [email protected] wrote:
> > >I have a few thoughts on the menus
> > >
> > >View menu
> > >
> > >Is encoding really something that fits on user menus rather than
> > >preferences
> > 
> > I would love if someone could explain me the use of that menu. I have no
> > clues about i18n :(
> 
> I think you've heard this before but probably forgotten about it ;).

Yeah, I keep forgetting things unless I use them.

> Its used for overriding the page-supplied or auto-detected charset of
> the currently displayed page. 
> Pages needing this treatment are quite common in the Cyrillic world in
> which we have at least 3 different widely used encodings.
> I would imagine its needed in the same way for Chinese, Japanese and for
> all the badly formated non-latin web thats out-there.
> 
> Its a "fix" thats used intermittently and per embed so its not advisable
> to be moved to a more global location.
> 
> Imo the encoding menu should stay exactly where it is. (as in most other
> browsers).
> 

Ok, in which cases you need to override them ? When autodetect fails and
charset is not supplied by the page ?
Just courious.

Marco



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