[Companion] New test version (repeat in plain text)

[Brian Kennelly]

(Sorry about the repeat, I forgot to send in plain text for the archives)

I just posted a new test version (0.5.5.20041213) as an attachment 
<http://mozdev.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=2452&action=view>to bug #8253 
<http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8253>.  It will be most useful 
for Chinese language users.

The only thing changed from 0.5.5.20041207 is the way bookmark titles 
are sent on an 'Add Bookmark...' request.  The bookmark title is 
translated from unicode to the NLS character set detected in the feed.  
Previously, characters outside the Latin-1 character set were escaped as 
%uXXXX, and Yahoo! stored and displayed them that way, and they were 
displayed that way in the IE toolbar.  The Mozilla toolbar used 
'unescape()' to display the original characters.  With this version, the 
bookmark titles should display correctly in both toolbars and the Yahoo! 
bookmark pages.

One disadvantage to the change is that only characters displayable in 
the users normal character set can be saved in bookmarks.  Another is 
that the displayed characters will be incorrect if the users change 
their language or locale preference on Yahoo!

Interestingly, the IE toolbar often uses the URL, rather than the title, 
if the title contains non-Latin characters. 

Do you have an opinion about which behaviour we should use going forward 
if the page title contains characters outside the ISO-8859-1 character set?

   1. Save the titles as 'unicode escapes'
         1. Portable across language and locale settings
         2. Only displays correctly in Mozilla/Firefox toolbar
   2. Save the titles in NLS
         1. Language/locale specific
         2. Displays correctly in both toolbars and on Yahoo! bookmark pages
   3. Save the titles in UTF-8
         1. Portable across languages and locales
         2. Could be displayed correctly in Mozilla toolbar and browser
            pages, but not in IE toolbar
   4. Save the URL as the title (truncate to NN characters?)
         1. Portable across languages
         2. Displays correctly in both toolbars and on Yahoo! bookmark pages
         3. Less descriptive than the title
   5. Some other scheme?