Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey: JS_InitStandardClasses allways fails
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@vnett.de>
Date : Fri May 16 2003 08:33 am

Brendan Eich wrote:
> If your locale 
> (or the HTTP charset) uses a multibyte encoding stored in char[], then 
> inflating char to jschar will mangle strings, in general.

In this case the desaster is present inside char* before SpiderMonkey is 
  initialized, because the application does not support multibyte 
encodings inside char*. So SpiderMonkey can't make it worse.

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