Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But anyway, I made the above a bit nebulous because: > -- I was waiting for something like Encode > -- I was waiting for perl to support (and auto-guess) encodings on > non-binary finehandles AND perl source. > -- And, more optimistically, I was hoping that people who wanted to edit > Pod and/or perl source in East Kreplakhistani or whatever doesn't fit in > Latin-1, would do it in Unicode.
> Have at least two of these things happened yet? > I have an ill feeling about implementing this stuff in Pod::Simple, > since there's very little that's Pod-specific about wanting text/source > to be parsed as being in the correct encoding, especially as signaled by > a BOM. Yeah, I'm with Sean on this. Until there's more Perl infrastructure (or at least until I understand the Perl infrastructure better), the sort of first pass that I was planning on would likely require that the user tell the translator what character set they're using if it's not ASCII or maybe some default non-ASCII character set. Eventually, it should be autosensing, but it seems like that's not really a POD parser problem so much as a generic text processing problem, and would be a lot easier to solve at a higher level. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
