A random note on Pod::Simple: Anyone who's been spelunking in Pod::Simple's source lately (or maybe just experimenting with it) might be wondering: "Hey, what about all that stuff in perlpodspec that says that a Pod processor should be able to read Pod in various encodings including Latin-1, UTF8, and UTF16?"
Well, the short story is that that part isn't done yet. The long story is that I'm waiting to see how the current Unicode-support stuff will shape up. What I'm really hoping is that if I open a file and don't set a discipline for it (nor just do binmode(IT)), then automagical guessing will take care of figuring out whether it's UTF8, UTF16, or Latin-1 (or just plain seven-bit, at which point it doesn't matter whether you consider it as UTF8 or as Latin-1). -- Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
