Re: Source data for perl encodings

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Well, I'd go beyond this and say that it would be nice if Perl would use
> the system iconv when available - iconv isn't the greatest interface,
> but it is generally pretty workable, and if people use the system 
> capabilities, then you avoid an explosion of tables.
> 
> The question here, of course, is whether:
> 
>  - Perl behaving the same Perl on every system
> 
> or 
> 
>  - Perl behaving the same as other programs on a given system
> 
> Is more important. It might be necessary to only use the system iconv
> on a known set of systems; I believe the GNU iconv data is kept in
> sync with libiconv.

The insidious problem with with any given encoding tranforming system is
the non-standardisation of the encoding names.

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