On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:46:02AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Keld,
>
> As you may be aware we are adding suuport for UTF-8 encoded Unicode
> to perl5. This is finally coming together. So now we need mechanism
> to translate other encodings into and out of Unicode.
I was not aware of that. Could you give me a pointer to the spec?
Do you mean unicode or do you mean ISO 10646?
> Initially I just grabbed what Sun/Scriptics/Ajuba/... had used for Tcl
> (because it was to hand). I have also looked at GNU iconv, IBM ICU
> and XFree86 4.*.
> None so far has been ideal for embedding in perl itself. Either
> the origin is not documented, they come with extra things we do not
> need or are monolithic.
>
> I have a prototype of our own "engine" which can translate one
> single/multi-byte encoding to another but need good tables
> to drive it.
>
> So I have been looking for "authoritative" tables - and starting
> a web search from your name from rfc1345 came across:
>
> ftp://dkuug.dk/cultreg
> in particular
> and then
> ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n
>
> The tables there seem to be suitable for my/our purposes.
> So I have a few questions:
>
> 0. Is use/redistribution of these tables in OpenSource projects
> permitted?
Yes, they are
> 1. Is the format formally defined anywhere?
> It seems straight forward enough.
The format is defined in the POSIX-2 standard ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993.
(Aka IEEE 1003.2).
> 2. Are the data actively maintained?
Yes, by me, and submissions I get. I am a little slow at times, tho.
> 3. Are in cultreg and i18n charmaps "identical"
No, i18n are more up to date. But cultreg are official ISO.
They are very syncronized, however.
> I also welcome suggestions as to other resources that may be
> available - particularly for asian encodings and IPA.
I do not have a good suggestion for asian encodings and IPA.
Kind regards
keld
