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[Encode] should piconv be installed in INST_SCRIPT as well?

2002-03-30 10:12:12
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 01:52 , Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

I will.  How about the piconv?

Well, let's take a poll first on this. While this script is not as imperative as enc2xs, It is a part of perl culture to reinvent a better wheel, such as a2p and find2perl. For those of you who has no idea what it is, I have added a part of document to get some idea on this.

Dan the Encode Maintainer

NAME
       piconv -- iconv(1), reinvented in perl

SYNOPSIS
piconv [-f from_encoding] [-t to_encoding] [-s string] [files...]
         piconv -l

DESCRIPTION
       piconv is perl version of iconv, a character encoding con-
       verter widely availabe for various unixen today.   This
       script was primarily a technology demostrator for Perl
       5.8.0, you can use piconv in the place of iconv for virtu-
       ally any cases.
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