On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 09:28:50AM +0800, Kan-Ru Chen wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017, at 01:43 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > In Firefox 43, I rewrote our Big5 support and, among other things, I > > optimized the *encoder* for footprint rather than speed on the theory > > that users won't notice anyway since the encoder run is followed by a > > dominating wait for the network when submitting a form. > > > > Since then, I've learned that the relative slowness of the Big5 > > encoder is greater than I had anticipated. Still, I haven't seen > > anyone complaining, but I don't know if anyone who finds it too slow > > knows how to attribute the complaint. > > > > I'd like to hear from someone who uses a Web site/app that involves > > submitting a textarea of Traditional Chinese text in Big5 if the form > > submission performance seems normal (doesn't feel particularly slow) > > on low-performance hardware, like an Android phone. (In the phone > > case, I mean the amount of text you'd feel OK to input on a phone at > > one time.) > > > > If UTF-8 is so widely deployed that no one in the Taipei office needs > > to submit forms in Big5 anymore, that would be good to know, too. > > I don't feel that I see a lot of Big5 websites out there. It's hard for > me to even find one to test. > > > Context: > > I need to decide if I should make Big5 encode faster or if I should > > trade off speed for smaller footprint for the legacy Simplified > > Chinese and Japanese *encoders*, too. > > I think Shift_JIS are still widely used. But this is just my experience > and guessing.
I'd tend to confirm that. Relatively recent governmental sites are still using it, such as http://www.e-tax.nta.go.jp/ (which is for tax returns) Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
