Fizzilla (Mac OS X build) Internationalization Improvement
Frank Tang <ftang@netscape.com>Overview
Currently a lot of Mozilla Mac specific code are origional design when we still support Mac OS 8.5. Therefore, we do not fully take advantage of some new APIs code introduce during Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X time frame. This document track the internationalization features which should be employeed into Mozilla to make a excellent international Mac OS X client.
Meta Tracking Bug: 103669 (Dependency Tree)
| No. | Task | Benefit | Risk | Priority | Target Milestone | Strategy | Estimation (days) | Bug Number | Apply To Mac OS 9? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Display Unicode in menu and menu bar | High | Low | High | N/A | Use CFString APIs for Menu & Menu bar | N/A | NO | DONE (by pinkerton) | |
| 2 | Display Unicode in window title | High | Low | High | N/A | Use CFString APIs for Window Title | N/A | NO | DONE (by ftang) | |
| 3 | Support Full Unicode TSM in Input Method | Med | Med | Med | m0.9.6 | Register TSM 1.5 kUnicodeDocument and accept all IME data in unicode | 3 | 23363 | YES | DONE |
| 4 | Support Full Unicode Keyboard mapping | Med | High | Med | m0.9.6 | Register TSM 1.5 kUnicodeDocument and implement new KeyEvent handing routine | 3 | 77038 | YES | DONE |
| 5 | Display All Unicode which have glyph in "data fork TrueType/OpenType fonts" | High | Low | High | Use ATSUI with new Font Manager enumberation APIs and get font data APIs | 1 | 94745, 90804 | NO | DONE | |
| 6 | List "data fork TrueType/OpenType fonts" font name in font pref. | High | Low | High | N/A | Use new Font Manager enumeration APIs | 2 | 90804, need seperate bug | NO | DONE (by beard) |
| 7 | Support Unicode based sorting (nsICollations) | Low | Med | Low | m0.9.6 | Implement nsICollations by using Unicode Utilities | 3 | 95282 | NO | DONE |
| 8 | Display Unicode in File Picker | Med | Med | Low | --- | Use New Navigator Service APIs to handle unicode directly | ? | 95478 | NO | DONE |
| 9 | Use Unicode file name | High? | High | Low | --- | Use New File System APIs to handle unicode directly | ? | 95481 | ? | Investigation [need information] |
| 10 | Display Unicode in Print widget ? | High? | High | Low | ? Maybe not an issue? | ? | ? | Investigation [need information] | ||
| 11 | Move to Use New Date Time Format APIs | Low | Med | Low | ? Lack of info. Do we have a new facility on Mac OS X ?? | ? | 105045 | ? | Investigation [need information] | |
| 12 | Implement Implement nsFontEnumeratorMac::HaveFontFor | Low | Low | Med | m0.9.6 | Bug Fixing | 0.5 | 95554 | YES | DONE |
| 13 | Treat file:/// url % escaped UTF-8 on Mac OS X | ? | Med | Med | m0.9.7 | return "UTF-8" on Mac OS X | 0.2 | 95560 | NO | Patch for review |
| 14 | Use FMGetFontFamilyTextEncoding instead of FontToScript | Med | Low | Med | Bug Fixing | 0.5 | 95557 | NO | Investigation | |
| 15 | FizzillaCFM defaults to old CJK fonts | Med | Low | Med | Find out better font name and a way to set it as default for Mac OS X | 1 | 84271 | NO | Got information from Apple. Working on Patch. | |
| 16 | Add fonts to Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic and Greek font prefs | Med | Med | Low | m0.9.7 | 1. read OS/2 table by using new font api? | 3 | 95978 | NO | Working on Patch |
| 17 | Switch language of system dialog when user switch language | Med | Unknown | Med | m0.9.7 | Maybe provide multiple "fake" localized resource bundle | ? | 100346 | NO | Investigation [need information] |