At 5/12/2003 02:21 AM +0800, imacat wrote:
The Locale::Maketext functions are not mult-byte safe, as some of you
may have noticed. It is not safe to the Traditional Chinese Big5
encoding. Big5 has some characters that contains "]" or "[" as their
second byte, which cannot (and should not) be escaped in the middle of a
full character. (Otherwise the character will break in half.)
Back when I first put together Locale::Maketext (five years ago now?) I was
sort of hoping that, in time, I wouldn't have to think about such things,
because everyone would be using Unicode for everything -- but that
definitely hasn't happened!
When I chose "[" and "]" as magic characters, I think I was dimly aware
that those could come up in a Japanese encoding or two, but I didn't know
about the general case of multibyte encodings that can consist of arbtrary
bytes under 0x80.
Anyway, I defer to people with experience on these things to come up with
suggestions on what to do.
(But remember, anything is possible with a bit of overriding of the
internal methods in Maketext.pm!)
--
Sean M. Burke sburke(_at_)cpan(_dot_)org http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
