Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote on 2002-03-10 16:45 UTC:
Oh, then there is this in open.pm:
# Could do more heuristics based on the country and language
# parts of LC_ALL and LANG (the parts before the dot (if any)),
# since we have Locale::Country and Locale::Language available.
# TODO: get a database of Language -> Encoding mappings
# (the Estonian database at http://www.eki.ee/letter/
# would be excellent!) --jhi
I've got the said databases stashed somewhere.
My friend Mike Bond likes to say: "To really understand the wheel, you
have to reinvent it". Nevertheless, this LC_* -> MIME charset conversion
has already been done and widely tested
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c
so why not use that? I am interacting with many communities like
yourself (Perl, TCL, Emacs, ...) and they are all facing the exact same
backwards compatibility problems, therefore I decided to maintain such
code for all of them, such that we have a single point for updating the
necessary mappings.
Markus
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Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
