[Companion] New test version

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 12:02 PM 12/7/2004, Brian Kennelly wrote:

>The Yahoo! toolbar feed changed the icon for the alert menu, which also 
>broke the code that recognizes and suppress the menu when it is 
>empty.  The attached file has a quick hack to fix the the problem.  I hope 
>to follow through with a better fix later, if someone doesn't beat me to it.
>
>This version also contains some other fixes (see the diff file for details).
>    * Makes the 'Choose buttons' button work (#7905)
>    * Uses UTF-8 for the default search to support non-latin character sets
>    * Replaces 'escape()' with 'encodeURIComponent()' in URL substitutions 
> (uses escaped UTF-8 codes rather than non-standard unicode 
> escapes.  (E.g., chinese character ' ' becomes '%E9%9B%85' rather than 
> '%u96C5')
>        * Bookmark titles still use 'escape()'.  We always read the feed 
> as NLS, rather UTF-8, so we do not want to store UTF-8.  I plan to 
> convert the titles to the NLS codes, unless we can find a way to tell 
> Yahoo! that we are sending UTF-8, or to request the feed in UTF-8.

Brian, can you please copy this to alpha.xpi on the web site?

I was unable to extract the .xpi file from the mailing list archives.

Thanks - Jim


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