Bug 1249416
Summary: | Package for uchardet? | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jehan <jehan.marmottard> |
Component: | Package Review | Assignee: | Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | i, package-review |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2015-08-03 11:17:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jehan
2015-08-02 18:13:00 UTC
uchardet was written by my friend who is now working at Google, it's his project back to at least 4 years ago, do you still wanna use it? Are you saying that the project is more or less abandoned? Is that the problem? Apart from a few commits a year, I indeed don't see much activity there. But it is based anyway on years-old code of Mozilla, which does not seem to have been touched since 2008 as well, based on an algorithm and a paper itself made and untouched since 2002 (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html and http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/UniversalCharsetDetection.html). I guess existing encoding detection works well and does not need to be modified too much, except from a few fixes here and there (there is still small activity in uchardet repo). Of course if you know a better C lib for encoding detection (more encoding support, better algorithm, active development even…), I'm good with any alternative and have no preference there. I just wish our distributions were more user-friendly for Asian users and installed software would detect automatically common encoding still in use. If such a lib were packaged everywhere, then apps would start using it. > I am unsure of the procedure to request new packages. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist Package Review Request queue is existing packages: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1264713 *** |