On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:43:53AM -0800, Ed Batutis wrote:
> Jarkko:
>
> >Thanks, will (re)try it...when I find the time. Maybe over the holidays...
> >
>
> If you have problems, the ICU "general" mailing list is probably your best resource:
>
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/archives/index.html
>
> However, I would be happy to help you directly especially if I have a configuration
>that matches yours.
>
> Apologies to everyone who knows all about ICU, but I'd like to say why I think it is
>important to incorporate ICU in Perl:
>
> I would really like to see Perl [optionally] use ICU for encoding conversions.
>Conversions are in general way harder than most people think they are. Even
>Unicode->something single byte isn't so easy. Inexperienced implementors often
>neglect many->one mappings. Encodings used on the web in the Far East are quite
>tricky to implement well.
That is, actually, the plan, ever since I heard of ICU this spring.
> [Optionally] incorporating ICU for locale-related operations would be a major step
>forward as well - not only to improve functionality but also security. But I'd be
>happy for now with conversions.
>
> =Ed Batutis
>
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