> > I may have mentioned the idea of maybe possibly eventually CPANizing > > Encode to Dan, so some part of the blame maybe mine... CPANizing > > frankly doesn't make much sense before we have at the very least > > 5.7.3, but probably not before we have 5.8.0. The Unicode support > > in pre-5.7.2 simply isn't worth the backporting pain yet (maybe > > eventually someone may get 5.6.X to work enough, but I wouldn't > > hold my breath). > > The situation is somewhat different in CJK regions, at least in > Japan. There are still thousands, if not millions, of servers running > perl 5.00503 or below. FreeBSD, for one, still uses 5.00503 for its > STABLE branch. Modules like this is in high demand.
One more time: pre-5.7.2 Perls have either no or very limited/broken Unicode support. Trying to backport Encode to old Perls may be very painful. No, I haven't *tried*. Why? I have this thing called 5.8.0 to think first. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
