perl-unicode

Re: Source data for perl encodings

2001-01-08 09:58:57
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Kingpin wrote:
The insidious problem with with any given encoding tranforming system is
the non-standardisation of the encoding names.

I18N::Charset was created as a step toward solving that problem...

As in: "Let's create yet another slightly incompatible standard"? :-)
(I haven't looked at I18N::Chraset, true, but I can't see how yet
another piece of software could solve the basic problem that we all
need to stick to some common naming of character encodins)

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