perl-unicode

Re: Encode.pm question

2003-05-15 14:30:05
MR  = Mark REED  (me)
DK  = Dan KOGAI
ST  = SADAHIRO Tomoyuki

MR> Has anyone implemented UTF-7 within Encode yet?  I noticed
MR> it doesn't come with 5.8 by default, and thought I would check before
MR> implementing it myself.

DK> You are right.  Encode does not have UTF-7 since I reckoned virtually 
DK> no one is using it :)  

My name's No-One.  Virtually No-One.  :)

DK> And so far as I see there is no CPANized module 
DK> that does that.

ST> Unicode::String has ->utf7() method for UTF-7.
ST> http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/Unicode-String-2.07/String.pm

Thank you both!  I appreciate the help.  U::S->utf7() is sufficient
for my needs, but would it still be worthwhile to implement
an Encode module for UTF-7?

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