Re: Source data for perl encodings

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Kingpin wrote:
> > The insidious problem with with any given encoding tranforming system is
> > the non-standardisation of the encoding names.
> 
> I18N::Charset was created as a step toward solving that problem...

As in: "Let's create yet another slightly incompatible standard"? :-)
(I haven't looked at I18N::Chraset, true, but I can't see how yet
another piece of software could solve the basic problem that we all
need to stick to some common naming of character encodins)

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