James Briggs wrote,
> Guys:
>
> Please review this FAQ and reply with your comments.
>
> Happy Holidays,
>
> James.
>
> http://rf.net/~james/perli18n.html
Here are some suggestions in the form of a uni-diff patch (note that I've
introduced some line breaks).
BTW, I think there was a perli18n.pod doc distributed with an earlier
version of perl.
Peter Prymmer
--- perli18n.html.orig Fri Dec 17 14:15:27 1999
+++ perli18n.html Fri Dec 17 14:43:13 1999
@@ -72,7 +72,14 @@
<a name="Q1"></a>
<b>Q1. I think that I'm a clever programmer. What's so hard about
internationalization?</b>
<p>
-A1. Internationalizing a product involves issues about program design, application
language features, cultural practices, fonts and often legacy clients. Most
programmers face a rude awakening when first internationalizing an application after a
career of only ASCII. Little details often become big headaches. The most important
thing you can do is start your international design early.
+A1. Internationalizing a product involves issues about program design,
+application language features, cultural practices, fonts and often legacy
+clients. Most programmers face a rude awakening when first internationalizing
+an application after a career of only ASCII. Little details often become big
+headaches. For example, a lot of code gets written with the assumption that
+there are only twelve months per year. This assumption does not hold true
+everywhere. The most important thing you can do is start your international
+design early.
<p>
For a typical tale of woe, see:
<a
href="http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/internationalization-support.html">http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/internationalization-support.html</a>
@@ -346,7 +353,8 @@
<p>
A9. Yes, see perldoc perlre.
<p>
-In short, \w is locale-dependent.
+In short, \w and \s (along with their converses \W and \S respectively) are
+locale-dependent.
<p>
<a name="Q10"></a>
<b>Q10. Do regular expressions work with Unicode?</b>
@@ -426,7 +434,7 @@
print $no_map->tou("V}re norske tegn b|r {res\n")->utf8;
</pre>
<p>
-Gisele Aas wrote Unicode::Map8.
+Gisle Aas wrote Unicode::Map8.
<p>
<b>Unicode::String</b>
<p>
@@ -446,7 +454,7 @@
print "Latin1: ", $u->latin1, "\n"; # lossy
print "Hex: ", $u->hex, "\n"; # a hexadecimal string
</pre>
-Gisele Aas wrote Unicode::String.
+Gisle Aas wrote Unicode::String.
<p>
<b>I18N::Collate</b>
<p>
@@ -507,7 +515,7 @@
See Frank Tang's site for some UTF-8 auto detection scripts:
<a
href="http://people.netscape.com/ftang/i18n.html#detect">http://people.netscape.com/ftang/i18n.html#detect</a>
<p>
-See Ken Lunde's CJKV book for some character encoding detection regular expressions.
+See Ken Lunde's CJKV book for some character encoding detection regular expressions
+in perl.
<p>
<a name="Q17"></a>
<b>Q17. Is Unicode big endian or little endian?</b>
@@ -518,13 +526,16 @@
<b>Q18. Is there an EBCDIC-safe transformation of Unicode?</b>
<p>
A18. Yes. UTF-EBCDIC stands for EBCDIC-friendly Unicode (or UCS) Transformation
Format.
-See Unicode Technical Report #16. <a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/">http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/</a>
+See Unicode Technical Report #16. <a
+href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/">http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/</a>.
+Unfortunately there is no Perl implementation of the proposed UTF-EBCDIC
+transform as of version 5.005_63. Also, the <CODE>use utf8;</CODE>
+pragma is unlikely to be very useful on EBCDIC Perls.
<p>
Where to Use UTF-EBCDIC?
<p>
UTF-EBCDIC is intended to be used inside EBCDIC systems or in closed networks where
there is a dependency on EBCDIC hard-coding assumptions. It is not meant to be used
for open interchange among heterogeneous platforms using different data encodings. Due
to specific requirements for ASCII encoding for line endings in some Internet
protocols, UTF-EBCDIC is unsuitable for use over the Internet using such protocols.
UTF-8 or UTF-16 forms should be used in open interchange.
<p>
-See the Perl EBCDIC FAQ at <a
href="http://www.best.com/~pvhp/os390/doc/perlebcdic.pod.txt">http://www.best.com/~pvhp/os390/doc/perlebcdic.pod.txt</a>
+See the Perl EBCDIC document at <a
+href="http://www.best.com/~pvhp/os390/doc/perlebcdic.pod.txt">http://www.best.com/~pvhp/os390/doc/perlebcdic.pod.txt</a>
<p>
<a name="Q19"></a>
<b>Q19. Are there security implications in I18n?</b>
End of Patch.
