On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:22:29AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > jhi, > > 2 minutes to respond. You are just unbelievable! > > On 2002.02.17, at 01:08, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >> jhk, I think this is as much as I can go for this weekend. Flu is > >> getting worse.... > > > > Okay, thanks! (Are you happy with this in 5.7.3?) > > Well, for 5.7.3, yes. But for 5.8.0, I think we still have a lot > todo. Let me list'em up before my body temperature hits 39 degrees > centigrade... > > * rename 'compile' to something else more appropriate so we can install > in $INSTALLSCRIPT > * stress testing on (CN|TW|KR) > * TRUE ISO-2022 handling > > And features missing compared to Jcode.pm > > * Encoding detection
This reminds me: we shoul probably have some user-accessible method of detection of the Unicode encodings, too: UTF-8 (well, this is really guessing, at least without a BOM, "does this look like valid UTF-8 to you"), but BOMs and UTF-16-foo, and UTF-32-foo. > * MIME header encoding > > And the obvious > > * decent documentation (especially JP|CN|KR|TW) > * distribution scheme of coding tables (enc? ucm? precompiled?) > > But I think we should release 5.7.3 soon so more people test'em.... Soon. > Dan the Man with Too Many Encodings to Handle -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
