On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 02:32 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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. :)
Okay, at least Mark "No-One" REED, at least we have a UTF-7 user here.
But just for curiosity's sake, what do you use it for?
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?
Frankly I do not object to adding support for UTF-7. Though I (can
not|have no intention to) add new encodings after encodings just
because it is there, UTF-7, though hardly ever used, is a UTF. jhi has
recently looked around if there is any more interesting encodings that
Encode should support but he told me "nothing interesting". I think I
can squeeze UTF-7 support in the next release.
One of the reasons I procrastinated from adding UTF-7 support was that
I had no raw UTF-7 data to compare to and no application to see the
result of. Now that I know Unicode::String supports that I feel more
obliged to add the support.
But before I commit the release I will definitely release a patch here
so "no one" like you can test it. So be my (alpha|beta) tester, please.
Dan the Encode Maintainer
