Portablity: make Encode portable with pre-perl 5.6?
That needs a complete rewrite of the current code; Encode today is
too CORE:: dependent (such as the use of utf8:: subs). Still it's worth
it and with proper #ifdef's I think I can make even XS portable.
My opnion is to make Encode available both as part of core and
independent module like so many popular ones as libnet, DB_File,
Storable, to name a few.
Remember there are still lots of sites without 5.6 with good reasons.
Well, for that we would need Unicode. How much of it we need?
Is the Unicode::String enough? If you need working Unicode regexes,
then pre-5.8 (yes, 5.8) Perl's are out of luck.
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