perl-unicode

Re: README.jp, README.tw, README.cn, README.kr

2002-04-14 08:42:00
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:09:23AM -0400, jshin(_at_)mailaps(_dot_)org wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Dan Kogai wrote:

On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 05:38 , Sean M. Burke wrote:
At 23:30 2002-04-13 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
(You know what?  Since of the files will be named README.xx and
written in pod, the build machinery will automatically create
the pod pages "perljp", "perltw", "perlcn", and "perlkr"...)

BTW, you all know those are country codes and not language tags, right?

Right.  But sometimes we have to bend the rule to keep legacy systems 
happy.  So be it .(cn|jp|kr|tw) instead of .(zh_cn|ja|ko|zh_tw) ;)

  I'm just wondering what legacy system we have to/can make happy
by using (cn|jp|kr|tw) in place of (zh_cn|ja|ko|zh_tw).  My North Korean

The 8.3 crowd.  zh_ and zh_ look pretty similar.

(Before somebody asks why do we care any more about 8.3, I'll answer
 that that's the way it has been done.)

brethren may not like it much if I use 'kr' instead of 'ko' (ko_kr) :-)

In theory we could go for (zhcn|jajp|kokr|zhtw)?  But that doesn't
look ring any bells to me at all.

  BTW, I'm sorry to make things more complicated when we seem to
have enough headache with perldoc's handling of 8bit characters.  However,
I can't help thinking it'd be better to make README.xx in UTF-8 and let
Encode convert to legacy encodings depending on the present locale setting
(LC_CTYPE -> nl_codeset()) than the other way around. Am I missing
something here?

That would work only if we had a header in *English* explaning how to
convert the rest of the file to the legacy encoding-- since, at least
as of now, the likelyhoods of a CJK users having
(1) a legacy encoding capable software
(2) a UTF-8 capable software
are not even comparable.
Which would kind of make void the whole idea of these CJK-friendly files.

I therefore suggest we forget the whole idea.

  Jungshik 

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