Re: FYI: Google blog on Unicode

From: Mark Davis โ˜• (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Sat Jan 30 2010 - 01:03:53 CST

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    Whoops... Thanks for the correction.

    Mark

    On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 21:30, Jungshik SHIN (์‹ ์ •์‹) <jshin1987@gmail.com>wrote:

    > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mark Davis โ˜• <mark@macchiato.com> wrote:
    > > If anyone is interested, the detection algorithm we use is
    > > open-sourced, available in the Chrome source code.
    >
    > Oops. Mark got confused. It's not yet open-sourced, but its 'cousin'
    > for language detection was open-sourced as a part of Chrome. The
    > language detector in Chrome is not yet in a shape to be separately
    > used by other projects, though. We're planning to separate it out from
    > the Chrome tree.
    >
    > Jungshik
    >
    >
    > >
    > > Mark
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:06, Mark Davis โ˜• <mark@macchiato.com> wrote:
    > >> It is encodings determined by a detection algorithm. The declarations
    > >> for encodings (and language) are far too unreliable to be depended on.
    > >> The detection algorithm itself is fairly complex, but quite fast and
    > >> compact.
    > >>
    > >> Mark
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 21:38, Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
    > wrote:
    > >>> On 28/01/2010 10:50, Mark Davis โ˜• wrote:
    > >>>>
    > >>>> There's a blog on Unicode that people may find interesting:
    > >>>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/unicode-nearing-50-of-web.html
    > >>>>
    > >>>> (The graph on Unicode is too small; until they get that fixed, I have
    > >>>> the large one on http://www.macchiato.com/)
    > >>>>
    > >>>> Mark
    > >>>
    > >>> What exactly is this counting? Encodings declared internally in
    > web-pages?
    > >>> Encodings declared in HTTP headers? Encodings determined by
    > auto-detection?
    > >>> Some combination of the above?
    > >>>
    > >>> --
    > >>> Simon Montagu
    > >>> Mozilla internationalization
    > >>> ืกื™ื™ืžื•ืŸ ืžื•ื ื˜ื’ื™ื•
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >



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