On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 11:48 , Anton Tagunov wrote:
With my upgraded knowledge of encoding naming I propose this.
Justification:
1)
Shift-JIS -> Shift_JIS does not hurt anyone, cause it does
not work either way, Encode::encode
understands only 'shiftjis'
I would prefer to settle the naming
first,
going to submit a separate bug
report for all aliases that do not
work later
This is covered by aliases as of 0.93. "shiftjis" remains canonical
name for module, however. (FYI all canonical encoding names in
Encode::XX are inherited from *.enc so they are compatible with
Encode::Tcl).
Here is the excerpt of new pod.
Canonical Alias Description
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[snip]
shiftjis /shift.*jis$/i Shift JIS (aka MS Kanji)
/sjis$/i
See the regex? Now you can go "$sjis = encode('Shift_JIS', $utf8)"
with no problem!
2)
I do not care too much if I have done a wrong classification
of encodings: I hope that as soon as something like this
gets into the docs we'll get plenty of feedback sufficient
to correct even the worth mistakes :-) 2 me it looks
good just to start the section.
<DISCLAIMER>
The main goal was to separate MIME names from
ISO names from proprietary names.
</DISCLAIMER>
Comment:
JIS 0201
JIS 0208
JIS 0212
GB 1988
GB 2312
are under my severe suspect, but I have posted separate mails
on them.
Grumbling:
CNS 11643
GB 12345
really hurt my feelings because they have a space inside,
but I have found no reason to touch them: neither
IANA nor rfc1345 name them, and everywhere I've seen them
they are written with a space.
Do you think it could still be translated to CNS-.., GB-
for consistency and beauty ? :-)
Proposition:
Should Name: HZ-GB-2312 be established as a synonym to HZ?
Or not worth the trouble?
Looking forward to your opinions! :-)))
- Anton
[patch follows]
I will apply the patch then revise the pod. Well, Encode.pm's pod
seems too long now. I think the general question should be exported
to, say, perlencode.pod and Encode.pm's pod slim down to API
documentations. What do you say, jhi?
Dan the Man with Too Many Names for Too Many Encodings
