At 4:25 pm +0100 2/2/01, Andreas Marcel Riechert wrote:
| Even if we won't get a new text editor in the next release, it seems to
| be a good idea to think about the features, the next editor should have.
| I think -- because Perl is moving more and more in the Unicode direction --
| a minimum requirement should be Unicode awareness.
| Therefore, at the moment I see two possible text-engines as a base:
|
| Waste >= 2.0 ... still Beta. ( http://www.merzwaren.com/waste/ )
| or
| The Multilingual Text Editor (MLTE)
| Unfortunately MLTE seems to require MacOS 8.6 or higher.
| So both engines do not seem to be "the best choice".
On the subject of Unicode, I'm getting increasingly fearful of the fate of UTF-7. IE
and OE (Mac and Windows) do both interpret UTF-7 but UTF-7 is not always offered as an
option in sending mail. I see no mention of UTF-7 in perl's current Unicode offerings
either. UTF-8 is a very bad idea for mail, especially if you're Japanese or Chinese,
for reasons well explained in the RFC, and yet it is now hard even to get information
on UTF-7 at the Unicode site. Does anyone know what the destiny of UTF-7 is? I fear
another American plot, like US_ASCII :-)
JD
