On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, brian moseley wrote:
> in re character encodings and conversions, my current plan
> is to write an IO::CharHandle class that takes the name of a
> character encoding as an argument and transparently performs
> conversions. the goal is to work with utf8 data only inside
> the boundaries of the container, and convert to native
> encodings when data passes out of the container.
Note that this is covered in Perl 5.7.2+ using the PerlIO layer. For an
example see XML::SAX::PurePerl which parses XML switching encodings on the
fly.
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