Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Edward Peschko wrote:
> >
> > All I'm trying to do is convert from UTF8 to iso-2022-jp ( the form of shift
> > jis that is used in email...) any help on how to do this would be greatly
> > appreciated...
Don't mix up JIS encoding (=former JUNET-encoding; iso-2022-jp) which
is 7-bit escaped encoding with Shift-JIS (sjis) which uses 8-bits and
no escapes. For email, usually iso-2022-jp (JIS encoding) is used. For
internal processing sane people usually don't use JIS encoding.
> Install 'Unicode::MapUTF8' - it probably does what you want:
>
> my $sjis_string = from_utf8({ -string => $utf8_string,
> -charset => 'iso-2022-jp' })
I hope I will never have to maintain such a code. I could spend hours
to find out wether the author intended to use "sjis" (Shift-JIS) or
"iso-2022-jp" (JIS) encoding.
> Alternatively, install the 'Jcode' module (Unicode::MapUTF8 forms a
> 'wrapper' around that and other Unicode modules to provide a single
> consistent interface for _all_ Unicode charset convertors).
>
> > (ps - the charset that I'm talking about can be found at:
> >
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html
> >
> > It would be really, really cool if perl had the same charset codes, or at least
> > an alias to them. That way, one wouldn't have to go through this 'is the charset
> > there' junk. Unfortunately there seems to be 10 aliases for charsets all over
> > the place.
If Japanese information processing is your main concern I would go
for Jcode.pm. BTW, last week the SJIS-string module was released
on CPAN. I don't know how reliable it is, but maybe its worth a try.
Andreas
