The old Communicator code base has a menu item labelled "User-Defined" in the charset menu. We probably need to support this in the new Mozilla. For all ASCIIs (0x00 - 0x7F), just map directly to Unicode (U+0000 - U+007F). All other byte values (0x80 - 0xFF) should be mapped to the Unicode Private Use Area (U+E000 - U+F8FF). More specifically, U+E000 - U+E07F. In the font engine, we map in the opposite direction, to get back the original bytes, and then use whatever font the user has chosen for User-Defined. On Windows, we obviously cannot use the "W" functions (GetTextExtentPoint32W and ExtTextOutW), since they expect Unicode, and wouldn't know what to do with PUA characters. So let's use the "A" functions. The old code base used ANSI_CHARSET in LOGFONT to accomplish this. On Unix, just convert back to the original bytes, and pass them to the 8-bit measure/draw functions. (Consistent with old code base.) On Mac, convert back to the original bytes, and do whatever the old code base did. Need to spec out the charset issues too. E.g. if HTTP/META charset is unknown, and User-Defined menu item is selected, use that. If HTTP/META charset is known, but user has used the override feature to specify User-Defined, use that.

From: ftang@netscape.com (Yung-Fong Tang) I propose we do the following 1. Create a "user defined" encoding converter which convert 0x80-0xFF to U+F780 - U+F7FF back and forth. Rational of the mapping range 1. The Private Use Area is defined from U+E000 - U+F8FF 2. Apple use U+F8A1 to U+F8FF for Apple specific chars. 3. Microsoft use U+E000 - U+EDE7 for Chinese/Japananese/Korean EUDC chars Issues 1. How we convert 0x01 - 0x1F ? I know some hacky encoding use some chars in that range for some human readable text instead of control code.

Do we have a list of the hacking encodings that use the 0x01 - 0x1F range?

Some additional info from bug 7569: Till netscape 4.51, users were able to install their own *.bdf fonts and view pages meant for that font. Is their any provision like that in SeaMonkey now? The page give www.vikatan.com uses fonts from www.murasu.com/download.html This font is very popular in Tamil language(of India) (End of excerpt.) I downloaded the fonts from the above site, and had a look. They appear to use normal ASCII in the 0x00-0x7F range, which is good news.

*** Bug 7569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Moved to M10

Note to myself: + /* + * XXX Turn prevFont into an object with GetWidth and DrawString + * methods. The object should do one of the following: + * 1. call the "W" function for normal Unicode strings, + * 2. call the "A" function for User Defined, + * 3. call the "A" function for Symbol, or + * 4. return the width of several boxes for missing glyphs. + */ ::SelectObject(mDC, prevFont->font); ::GetTextExtentPoint32W(mDC, &aString[start], i - start, &size);

Adding lyecies@netscape.com to cc list.

post-Beta1 feature

Moving all M16s to M17. Please make comments if you disagree.

Since this appears in the UI, we should release note that this is not done for Beta1.

Shouldn't this be in by Beta2, therefore by M16?

Hi Juraj, Bob and I thought that this might be a good one for you. Let's discuss this when you have finished your other tasks.

Hi Erik, looks like fun, I'm taking it on board :-) I hope to be finished with the accept language UI soon, maybe we can talk then...

I checked in the User-Defined support for Unix. Now I will work on Windows. Re-assigning to myself.

for some reason I still apprear as owner of this bug; reassigning to erik

Checked in User Defined support for Windows. Over to Frank for the Mac.

move to M17

Putting on [nsbeta2+][5/16] radar. I18n would REALLY like this in for beta2.

reassign garywade@desisoftsystems.com

Added keywords: pp (works on Win and Linux, but not Mac), and 4xp (been a browser feature for years).

On exception list for PR2, removing 5/16...giving [nsbeta2+]Exception Feature status.

ascii part is convert to ASCII part in Unicode. 80-FF is convert to F780 to F7FF in unicode

add ETA info for gary

Changed the following files to add this new feature and to make the font settings changes more complete, as referenced in Bug 30300. mozilla/gfx/macbuild/gfx.mcp mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsFontMetricsMac.cpp mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeBlock.h mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeFontMappingMac.cpp mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeFontMappingMac.h mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeMappingUtil.cpp mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeMappingUtil.h mozilla/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeRenderingToolkit.cpp

Marking verified fixed in June 20th build.