Re: Encode functionality for Perl 5.6.1

2002-09-21 Thread Dan Kogai
On Saturday, Sep 21, 2002, at 22:38 Asia/Tokyo, Robert Allerstorfer wrote: Hi, the great Encode module requires perl 5.8. Are there any backports existing yet that may work with 5.6.1? I am trying to find a solution to encode Japanese (shiftjis) and Chinese (gb2312 and big5) into utf8 with

Re: Encode functionality for Perl 5.6.1

2002-09-21 Thread SADAHIRO Tomoyuki
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:38:31 +0200 Robert Allerstorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the great Encode module requires perl 5.8. Are there any backports existing yet that may work with 5.6.1? I am trying to find a solution to encode Japanese (shiftjis) and Chinese (gb2312 and big5) into

Encode::compat (was Re: Encode functionality for Perl 5.6.1)

2002-09-21 Thread Autrijus Tang
Dan san, a) if it uses 'Encode' as module name it needs to work both in 5.8 and 5.6.1. Bottom line is that backported version will not breach what it is now. If it ain't broke, don't fix it (and 5.6.1 was broke Unicode-wise) b) if you just implemented Encode functionality in

Re: Encode::compat (was Re: Encode functionality for Perl 5.6.1)

2002-09-21 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:06:27AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: Dan san, a) if it uses 'Encode' as module name it needs to work both in 5.8 and 5.6.1. Bottom line is that backported version will not breach what it is now. If it ain't broke, don't fix it (and 5.6.1 was broke

Re: Encode::compat (was Re: Encode functionality for Perl 5.6.1)

2002-09-21 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:19:21AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: If one has the GNU recode installed one can also fall back to Convert::Recode. Thus noted. Thanks! and if all else fails one can do at least the Latin-1 - UTF-8 byte level conversion rather trivially with the: