Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 04:06 , Dan Kogai wrote:
>>   *.pm and *.pod are easy to fix but *.enc is tough because Encode::Tcl
>> and compile faithfully generate canonical encoding name out of
>> filenames.
>>   For the time being I will fix *.pod and *.pm but I am stoked on
>> *.euc.  Tell me what you guys think.
>
>   I think the easiest solution to this is, as the title says, replace
>all *.enc to *.ucm and detach Encode::Tcl from Encode package,  Because
>*.ucm can independently set encoding name from file name.  I know NI-S
>would second that but I wonder what Sadahiro-san would feel.

It should not be too hard to take the .ucm file parsing from 'compile'
and teach Encode::Tcl-like all-perl code to read .ucm-s.
We can then rename it Encode::Perl ;-)


>   Upon Sadahiro-san's OK, I will go ahead do so.  Here is my strategy;
>
>0.     Generate all the necessary *.ucm via
>   perl5.7.3 ./compile -n $encname -o Encode/$encname.ucm
>Encode/$encname.enc
>1.  rename non-8.3-compliant *.ucm and reflect changes to */Makefile.PL
>2.  detach Encode::Tcl and upload it to CPAN.
>
>   I think the last part of 2. should be done by Sadahiro-san.  I will
>detach Encode::Tcl and send it to Sadahiro-san.  How about that?
>
>Dan the Encode Maintainer
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