On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:07:15PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> writes:
I started doing this at one point by making Perl to understand the
langinfo(CODESET) thingy (I18N::Langinfo), but at some point I was
somewhat disheartened by the sucky support of langinfo() across the
platforms and walked away in disgust.
Can we Configure test for working langinfo(CODESET), and if good enough
make :locale the default - which I think is what Larry's wish means?
Possibly. The only drawback I see is that then the Perl I/O behaviour
of the same release of Perl is different across platforms.
Essentially, it would make the locale pragma the default on certain
areas: things work differently depending on what locales are available,
and which locales the user is using. Not that it wouldn't be the
right thing to do; it's just something that we haven't done so far.
Given that the default locale setup is screwy (e.g. in Mac OS X)
in many places, I don't want to make that decision.
Another thing is that I notice I got the current logic of
"use open ':locale'" wrong. Let's try again:
(1) if langinfo(CODESET) returns something, it is used as the
default encoding for opens
(2) if langinfo didn't work and we are under the locale pragma,
the $ENV{LC_ALL} and LANG (in that order) are matched for any
encoding (stuff after a "."), and if any found, that is being used
(3) if (1) and (2) didn't work, the LC_ALL and LANG are matched again
for /\butf-?8/i, and if found, :utf8 is used for the default encoding
for opens
Now while I'm at it, I might record the above logic to the pod of open.pm...
However, one can even currently (in 5.7.3) say use open ':locale' and
if your langinfo() returns something matching /utf-?8/i you will get
automagic utf8-fication on your I/O (Not on your STDIN and OUT,
though). At least, that was the theory and plan.
What is the issue with doing it for STDIN..STDERR ?
No good reason not to, I guess. So should "use open ':locale'"
automatically binmode the IN..ERR to the whatever locale we can find?
One should be able to binmode them when we have established what
the layer(s) should be?
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