On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:18:55AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
> On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 06:06 AM, George Rhoten wrote:
> > Hopefully you take the implicit information in the UCM files and put 
> > that
> > into encode implementation too.  For instance, in gb18030 there are 
> > whole
> > ranges of Unicode mappings that aren't in the UCM file, but they are in 
> > the
> > implementation of the gb18030 converter (and the XML form of the UCM
> > file).  If the encode API works with gb18030 properly, that's great :-) 
> > I'm
> > sure that the people in China appreciate that.
> 
> As a matter of fact GB18030 is ALREADY supported via Encode::HanExtra by 
> Autrijus Tang.  The only reason GB18030 was not included in Encode main 
> is sheer size of the map.
> 
> I have deliberately kept Parrot and Perl6 out of my mind until Perl 5.8 
> is a reality.  Now that 5.8-RC1 is just 24 hours away, I should get 

Oy!  More like 42.

> myself ready for Parrot and Perl6....
> 
> Dan the Encode Maintainer

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