Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >jhi, Nick, Sadahiro and folks @ perl-unicode, > > I have just finished 'modularizing' Encode module.
I appologise in advance for sounding rather negative about the idea. I hate to turn down offers of help, but really wish you could do the bits I don't understand rather than re-working the bits I am quite good at. >Modularizing I >mean that Encode module now compiles AFTER you have installed perl5.7.2. Err, it used to do that once - I have installed it in 5.6.0 for instance. (Where it collapsed in a heap due to lack of enough UTF-8-ness.) [Encode was once an add-on to assist Tk's "support" for Unicode ...] > > + Based upon perl@14471 > + Files like Changes, MANIFEST are added > + Encoding tables are all relocated from Encode/ to tables/ Any reason why? The files were under Encode to that an @INC search for Encode/... could be done allowing folk to install encodings in the "normal" manner. > + One package, One File What do you mean by that? iso-2022 is to be one file?! - we replicate 0-128 in all the ASCII-oid tables?! > + Tab stop = 4 (Sorry, Nick!) An indent of 4 and a tab-stop of 8 is _the_ perl (and most open source) standard. I have just about beaten my editor into doing that now... > > As you see real work is yet to be done but at least now we can develop >Encode ASYNCHRONOUSLY from perl core. Well I am far from sure that is a good idea until it works better than it does now - given that various parts of the core assume its existance. We have various CPAN modules that do things "like" Encode - the rationale for building it (as a framework) into the core was to try and provide an interface that people could rely on existing. It was already "modular" in intent - in that some CPAN module could provide new encodings (tables) and encoders (algorithms). It may have rough edges (patches welcome) and I know the multi-byte and escape encodings are not finished but ... > You can get one via > >http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/Encode-0.30.tar.gz How big is it? - will take a look. > > and upon the approval of jhi, I will upload this to CPAN. jhi, please >have a look and tell me what you think. FYI, Version 0.30 is simply how >RCS does 0.02++. Well it's wrong ;-) > >CAVEAT > >* In terms of functionality (and the very lack thereof), it makes no >difference from the version that comes with perl@14471 >* Perl 5.7.2 or later needed so far >* CJK decode is still kaput (Actually worsened since 5.7.2 release) > >Dan the Encoder of Yours -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
