Encode Hackers,
Here are changes since 0.95. I decided to let ISO-8859 and other
single-byte encodings demand-load like Encode::XX.
+ Byte/Byte.pm
+ Byte/Makefile.PL
+ EBCDIC/EBCDIC.pm
+ EBCDIC/Makefile.PL
+ Symbol/Makefile.PL
+ Symbol/Symbol.pm
! Encode.pm
! Encode.xs
Latin and single byte encodings are reorganized so they are
demand-loaded like Encode::XX. Now only ascii is compiled into
Encode itself.
! lib/Encode/Alias.pm
for my $k (keys %hash){ delete $hash{$k}; }
is depreciated; fixed.
And here is the outcome.
Then...
> > perl5.7.3 -MEncode=encodings -e 'print join(",",
> sort(encodings())),"\n"'
> UCS-2,UCS-2le,US-ascii,UTF-8,cp1250,cp1251,cp1252,cp1253,cp1254,cp1255,
> cp1256,cp1257,cp1258,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-10,iso-8859-11,iso-8859-13,
> iso-8859-14,iso-8859-15,iso-8859-16,iso-8859-2,iso-8859-3,iso-8859-4,
> iso-8859-5,iso-8859-6,iso-8859-7,iso-8859-8,iso-8859-9,koi8-r,
> maccenteuro,maccroatian,maccyrillic,macdingbats,macgreek,maciceland,
> macroman,macrumanian,macsami,macthai,macturkish,macukraine,viscii
And now...
> > perl5.7.3 -Mblib -MEncode=encodings -e \
> 'print join(",", sort(encodings())),"\n"'
> UCS-2,UCS-2le,US-ascii,UTF-8
Yet there is no problem if you go like this;
> > perl5.7.3 -MEncode -e 'print encode("iso-8859-1", "There!"),"\n";" \
> -e "print join(",", sort(Encode::encodings())), "\n"'
> There!
> UCS-2,UCS-2le,US-ascii,UTF-8,cp1250,cp1251,cp1252,cp1253,cp1254,cp1255,
> cp1256,cp1257,cp1258,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-10,iso-8859-11,iso-8859-13,
> iso-8859-14,iso-8859-15,iso-8859-16,iso-8859-2,iso-8859-3,iso-8859-4,
> iso-8859-5,iso-8859-6,iso-8859-7,iso-8859-8,iso-8859-9,koi8-r,
> maccenteuro,maccroatian,maccyrillic,macdingbats,macgreek,maciceland,
> macroman,macrumanian,macsami,macthai,macturkish,macukraine,viscii
In terms of functionalities, nothing has changed. The CJK users may
save 200KB or so when they don't need ISO-8859 series. But the best
thing about it is it that top directory is much cleaner now.
I'm not sure whether vendor encodings (cp* and mac*) should go to
different namespaces all well but in term of sizes I think the current
situation is okay.
> ls -F `find blib/arch/auto/Encode -name \*.so` # on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
168 blib/arch/auto/Encode/Byte/Byte.so*
1608 blib/arch/auto/Encode/CN/CN.so*
19 blib/arch/auto/Encode/EBCDIC/EBCDIC.so*
27 blib/arch/auto/Encode/Encode.so*
1800 blib/arch/auto/Encode/JP/JP.so*
1312 blib/arch/auto/Encode/KR/KR.so*
21 blib/arch/auto/Encode/Symbol/Symbol.so*
1296 blib/arch/auto/Encode/TW/TW.so*
Another thing I am not sure is whether you like the name of
Encode::Byte or not. If you don't like it, tell me and I'll rename it
if your name looks greater....
Dan the Yet Another Encode Hacker
