On July 23, 2002 at 16:35, "Takashi P.KATOH" wrote:
- wrote a new function to clip iso-2022-jp text
- simplified the code somewhat
This is just intermediate product for full Japanese support;
in fact, the new function is not called from anywhere.
Thus, we need to modify the main code to call this function
appropriately.
I would prefer to avoid making exception to specific character
sets in the main code since it is a slippery slope with the plethora
characters sets in existance.
Ideally, everything should be mapped into Unicode (UTF-8), but
to do it properly, and robustly, will require Perl 5.8, or later.
I believe 5.8 will also have some nice encoding modules that allow
conversion to-from Unicode akin to how Java does it. I've read
discussions about it on the perl-unicode mailing list.
Note: I did add a MHonArc::UTF8 module that does allow conversion
of message text to UTF-8, but text clipping is a problem as with
iso-2022-jp. Is using UTF-8 acceptible for Japanese users?
A possible interim solution is to add yet another resource that
allows you to specify the "clip" routine used in resource variable
text clipping. Therefore, you can specify the iso-2022-jp clip
function for iso-2022-jp message archives. There could also be
a UTF-8 aware function for UTF-8 strings.
I'll try to get your changes to iso2022jp.pl in for the next 2.5.10
release.
Thanks,
--ewh
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