Porters,
I have just released Encode-2.09, AKA GAAS special. Gisle, thank you
for all the reports and patches. Wish they were done before 5.8.6 :)
=head1 Availability
http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/cpan/Encode-2.09.tar.gz
or CPAN near you
=head1 Changes
$Revision: 2.9 $ $Date: 2004/12/03 19:16:53 $
! Encode.pm Encode.xs
Addressed " :encoding(utf8) broken in perl-5.8.6".
Message-Id: <lrllcfeank(_dot_)fsf_-_(_at_)caliper(_dot_)activestate(_dot_)com>
! Encode.pm
Addressed "(de|en)code($valid_encoding, undef) does not warn".
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8723
! Encode.pm t/Encode.t
Addressed "Can't encode URI". When a reference is fed to (en|de)code,
Encode now stringifies instead of returning undef.
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8725
! Encode.xs t/fallback.t
Addressed "FB_HTMLCREF and FB_XMLCREF for the UTF-8 decoder".
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8694
! Encode.pm
Addressed "s/digit/number/".
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8695
! Encode.pm
Addressed "while (defined(read )) { ... } is an infinite loop".
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8696
! Encode.pm
Addressed "What the heck is UCM?".
Document fixed so that it no longer contains "UCM-Based Encodings".
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8697
=head1 NOTE
I am in the middle of moving out and I will not settle till Dec. 10th
or so. So please be patient if you ever RT'd or mailed me on Encode.
=head1 Murphy's Law of Patches
* Patches come after the RC period is over.
* Patches come when you are hauling.
=head1 Signature
Dan the Encode Maintainer
