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Bug 112728 - encoding menu needs improvement
encoding menu needs improvement
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Interface
unspecified
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: 1.2
Assigned To: Christian Persch
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-10 19:43 UTC by Jorn Baayen
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Jorn Baayen 2003-05-10 19:43:52 UTC 
The encoding menu currently does not show which encoding is currently used,
this is rather inconvenient. Also it's a big mess, I would like to suggest
using something similar to gnomechat.

(Which is a one-level submenu, listing like 15 of the most common charsets
(as radiomenuitems), a separator and then an 'Other..' item opening a
dialog allowing you to select a specific charset)
Comment 1 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-05-11 00:14:36 UTC 
can someone explain to me what the encoding menu actually does so that
I can document it?
Comment 2 Jorn Baayen 2003-05-11 00:22:50 UTC 
an encoding table is a way to map bits to characters.. and the
encoding menu changes the encoding table for the current document.
That's basically all.

Sometimes when a text is in a different encoding than your default and
the document doesnt specify the encoding you have to use the menu..
Comment 3 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-05-11 00:35:27 UTC 
So basically its a fallback for poorly designed pages that don't
specify what locale they're in?
Comment 4 Jorn Baayen 2003-05-11 00:40:37 UTC 
thats right
Comment 5 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-05-19 01:04:09 UTC 
bug 113044 has some relevant conversation on this topic.
Comment 6 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-09-01 13:21:58 UTC 
Sorry for the spam. Reassigning bugs with a target to our next milestone.
Comment 7 Christian Persch 2003-10-13 10:33:04 UTC 
> The encoding menu currently does not show which encoding is currently
> used,
That's fixed on HEAD.

Simplification of the encodings menu will be next step, probably with
a list of mostfreq encodings + "More..." -> dialogue.
Comment 8 Christian Persch 2003-10-18 19:58:37 UTC 
Fixed on HEAD; if there are problems with new menu or the encoding
dialogue, let's file separate bugs.