Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> David Mathog wrote:
>> David Mathog wrote:
>>
>>> I think it will be ok to skip patches 5,6,9 so long as a I never
>>> hit Asian or Arabic language sites, and start firefox with
>>>
>>> export MOZILLA_SOLARIS_PATCHCHECKER=disable_patchchecker
>>
>> This turned out to be the case. I have run firefox for a while
>> now and the absence of Asian language support has not yet
>> caused any issues.
>>
>
> Would you expect it to?
>
> I occasionally get spam in Arabic, Japanese, Chinese. I couldn't read
> it anyway so it doesn't matter if my browser and/or mail client can
> render it.

The question is (and it is not yet resolved) whether the code would know
"that library doesn't exist" and not try to render those languages, or
if it would assume that the library does exist, try to render using
bogus pointers and such, and boom. Normally I would assume that since
support for various languages is optional a program would do the former,
but in this case since the patch checker which ships with Sun's firefox
port demands those extra patches, I wonder if it might not do the latter.

Regards,

David Mathog