[Padma] Fwd: How to manually transform a page by Padma?

[V S Rawat]

Frankly, I had spend so much time on this task, and had done it anyway 
through the empty profile that I talked about, that I didn't try the 
solution. I take it that it must be the problem and the solution.

However, I couldn't understand what is the merit of keeping padma 
working only on non-unicode character encoding, and keeping it not 
working on unicode encoding.

when a person is manually given a command to transform text, it is 
obvious that he/ she wants the text to get transformed. In such a case, 
why stop him to get the transformed text, why make padma sit idle 
without even informing that padma won't do anything on a unicode 
character encoding, and telling him that if he still wants it, he should 
change the encoding away from unicode.

or is there any technical clash that doesn't allow padma to work on a 
unicode encoded page.

I assume that it could be just an oversight on the developer's part that 
encoding was not taken care of, thus padma is not working on unicode pages.

If that was so, I would hope that some fix would get released so that 
padma will work on unicode encoded pages also. It should especially work 
when a user gives the manual transform command, and, if it can't work, 
at least the user should be told to change the encoding away from 
unicode, or he should be told not to expect padma to work.

It is excellent extension when it works.

Thanks and Regards.
-- 
Rawat

On 5/12/2007 07:04 PM India Time, _Nagarjuna Venna_ wrote:

> Comments from Anvar...
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Padma <padma.kodungallur at gmail.com>
> Date: May 12, 2007 4:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Padma] How to manually transform a page by Padma?
> To: Nagarjuna Venna <vnagarjuna at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> I think the problem is related to the selection of encoding.
> If the Unicode encoding was selected as default, Padma won't work in
> manual mode. In Auto mode, however the fix will be applied.
> 
>  From his initial mail, the text was shown in Unicode Junk , instead of
> western Junk !
> Nothing related to Padma and Firefox ! Not a bug...
> [I couldn't post the mail to the mailing list, but already send to
> Mr.Rawat directly]
> If this observation is correct please send this to the mailing list, so
> that any others can make use of the trick !
> 
> Regards
> Padma
> 
> Nagarjuna Venna wrote:
>> On 5/10/07, V S Rawat <vsrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> - padma is clashing with something in my profile settings of firefox.
>>> Now that is really problematic to debug.
>>>
>> Can you see if there is anything in the Javascript console when the
>> manual transform did not work (Tools->Error Console)?
>>
>>
>>> While we are at it, padma "options" from firefox don't have any entry of
>>> which "fonts" are converted by padma. We need to go to padma's websites
>>> to see which fonts are getting coverted. I think it should display some
>>> list of the fonts being converted by padma, within firefox add-on/ padma
>>> options, about window itself.
>>>
>>>
>> Will do in a later release.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nagarjuna
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