On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:38:31 +0200 Robert Allerstorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > the great Encode module requires perl 5.8. Are there > any backports existing yet that may work with 5.6.1? I am trying to > find a solution to encode Japanese (shiftjis) and Chinese (gb2312 > and big5) into utf8 with that perl version since 5.8 is not yet used > widely, unfortunately. > > Thanks for suggestions! For some Shift_JIS-ish encodings, my humble modules may be helps. They will work fine on 5.6.1 with Perl's SVfUTF8 flag. CP-932 (aka Windows_31J, a Shift_JIS variant for Microsoft Windows) http://search.cpan.org/author/SADAHIRO/ShiftJIS-CP932-MapUTF-0.14/ Shift_JISX0213 (specified by JIS X 0213:2000) http://search.cpan.org/author/SADAHIRO/ShiftJIS-X0213-MapUTF-0.02/ Shift_JIS (specified by JIS X 0208:1997) http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/perl/ShiftJIS-JISX0208-MapUTF-0.05.tar.gz SADAHIRO Tomoyuki
