perl-unicode

Re: Source data for perl encodings

2001-01-08 12:08:19
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:01:39AM -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Kingpin wrote:

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

As in: "Let's create yet another slightly incompatible standard"? :-)

Basically, it maps charset names and aliases to the IANA registry
names.

Hmmmm....Sounds like something I should add support for to
Unicode::MapUTF8. I am trying to make it as transparently DWIM as
possible.

I would invite any encoding extension writers to take a look at
what we have at the Perl development sources now.

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Benjamin Franz

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