I am wondering if Perl 5.8.0 will be integrated to FreeBSD 5 when I 
released Encode-1.65.  FYI FreeBSD 5 release schedule is delayed a whole 
year from November 2001 to November 2002.  We would definitely have Perl 
5.8.0 with no trailing RC (right, Borg?)
Whole:
        http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/Encode-1.65.tar.gz and CPAN
Diff against current: 223 lines
        http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/current-1.65.diff.gz
And the Changes
$Revision: 1.65 $ $Date: 2002/04/30 16:13:37 $
! Encode.pm
  encode(undef) no longer warns for C<Use of uninitialized value in
  subroutine entry>.  Suggested by Paul.
  Message-Id: 
<AIEAJICLCBDNAAOLLOKLMEEEEJAA(_dot_)Paul(_dot_)Marquess(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com>
! lib/Encode/Supported.pod
  Encode::MIME::Header and Encode::Guess mentioned
  Updated for Encode::HanExtra 0.05 and Encode::JIS2K
! lib/Encode/Guess.pm
  POD fix by Miyagawa-kun
  Message-Id: <86k7qqx8p7(_dot_)wl(_at_)mail(_dot_)edge(_dot_)co(_dot_)jp>
Dan the Encode Maintainer