On Saturday, December 29, 2001, at 11:23 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Anyway, I just noticed that there is already a Lingua::RU::Charset for > Russian charset transformations, so I'm thinking that I could release > the > modules as: > > Lingua::ZH::Charset (convert between big5, gb, and unicode, maybe) > Lingua::ZH::Romanization - romanize mandarin and cantonese > pronunciations > Lingua::ZH::HBF - read HBF font files and generate GD bitmaps > > That seems like a fairly rational set of choices.
Yeah, that seems like a pretty good orthogonalization. I might shorten 'Romanization' to 'Roman', though. HBF doesn't mean much to me (I'm not very savvy in this field, though), perhaps a more descriptive name like 'Shape' or 'Picture' or 'Font', maybe? > The other question is whether to release them as a unit > (Lingua::ZH::Utils > or something) or as three separate tarballs. > Plain old Lingua::ZH would seem to make sense, unless that's playing too greedy with the namespaces. Another option is Lingua::ZH::Tools, which is similar to existing module collections like File::Tools and so on. -Ken
