Owen Taylor <otaylor(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com> writes:
Mark Leisher <mleisher(_at_)crl(_dot_)nmsu(_dot_)edu> writes:
Well, I'd go beyond this and say that it would be nice if Perl would use
the system iconv when available - iconv isn't the greatest interface,
but it is generally pretty workable, and if people use the system
capabilities, then you avoid an explosion of tables.
The question here, of course, is whether:
- Perl behaving the same Perl on every system
or
- Perl behaving the same as other programs on a given system
The bug snag with that is that there is no way to tell what encodings
system iconv can do, or what they mean. e.g. does Solaris's iconv
handle Adobe Symbol encoding so perl/Tk can use it (via perl) to use
glyphs from the symbol fonts?
Is more important. It might be necessary to only use the system iconv
on a known set of systems; I believe the GNU iconv data is kept in
sync with libiconv.
I have been told that too.
Regards,
Owen
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Nick Ing-Simmons
