Ed> I haven't seen your engine, but I've created such engines and worked
Ed> on engines others have created. They aren't easy to do. Just
Ed> supporting a basic set of Internet encodings will be a difficult
Ed> undertaking. Maybe you've got it all worked out, in which case hats
Ed> off to you. Otherwise I would recommend a strategy whereby you
Ed> implement a core set of single-byte conversions (for, say, Western
Ed> Europe, Central Europe, and Cyrillic languages) with an internal
Ed> engine and plan to incorporate an optional ICU hook-up for anything
Ed> else. That way you don't have to maintain and distribute large Asian
Ed> encoding tables.
What would be nice is some variation of Bruno Haible's libiconv that allows
dynamic loading of mapping tables. Then Perl would have reasonable conversion
capability at about 1/16 the size of ICU.
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