Open Bug 1347888 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Remove nsIConverterOutputStream

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

Tracking

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Performance Impact none

People

(Reporter: hsivonen, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug, Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

We should remove nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter and have chrome scripts use the same facilities as Web scripts (TextDecoder/TextEncoder) instead of maintaining a parallel XPCOM universe of things.

Possible replacement:
 1) TextEncoder
 2) Wrap result in nsIArrayBufferInputStream
 3) NetUtil.asyncCopy to nsIOutputStream
s/nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter/nsIConverterOutputStream/
No longer depends on: post-57-api-changes
This is used in calendar, mail and mailnews.
Do the proposed replacement have the feature of the "converter" for converting characters between charsets?
Looks like there is a little confusion here. This bug is about nsIConverterOutputStream.
nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter is covered in bug 1347877 and it offers the conversions.

nsIConverterOutputStream seems to be used with UTF-8 on all the call sites I've looked at:
http://searchfox.org/comm-central/search?q=nsIConverterOutputStream&case=false&regexp=false&path=
(In reply to :aceman from comment #2)
> This is used in calendar, mail and mailnews.
> Do the proposed replacement have the feature of the "converter" for
> converting characters between charsets?

Filed bug 1353285.
Whiteboard: [qf]
Whiteboard: [qf] → [qf-]
Priority: -- → P3
Performance Impact: --- → -
Whiteboard: [qf-]
Severity: normal → S3
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