Re: Source data for perl encodings

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:01:39AM -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Kingpin wrote:
> 
> > > > I18N::Charset was created as a step toward solving that problem...
> > > 
> > > As in: "Let's create yet another slightly incompatible standard"? :-)
> > 
> > Basically, it maps charset names and aliases to the IANA registry
> > names.
> 
> Hmmmm....Sounds like something I should add support for to
> Unicode::MapUTF8. I am trying to make it as transparently DWIM as
> possible.

I would invite any encoding extension writers to take a look at
what we have at the Perl development sources now.

> -- 
> Benjamin Franz
> 
> ... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This 
> approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
> 
>                                      ---Dennis Ritchie

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