Hi I'm going to upload 2 modules to CPAN.
1. Email::Address::Loose http://coderepos.org/share/browser/lang/perl/Email-Address-Loose/trunk This module provides "loose parse()" like Email::Valid::Loose. and, it has a "override Email::Adddrss::parse" option. The mobile carrier in Japan supply a RFC-invalid account address. They do not improve this specification still now. (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) So, I think that Email::Address::Loose helps a Japanese web developer. 2. Email::Address::JP::Mobile http://coderepos.org/share/browser/lang/perl/Email-Address-JP-Mobile/trunk Japanese has a various encoding, but encoding that can be used by MUA on cellular phone of Japan is limited. e.g. SoftBank cellphone: iso-2022-jp, utf-8, variant utf-8 (Encode::JP::Mobile support as x-utf8-softbank) DoCoMo cellphone: iso-2022-jp, Shift_JIS, variant Shift_JIS (Encode::JP::Mobile support as x-sjis-docomo) Then, I wrote Email::Address::JP::Mobile that extends Email::Addrss object. Any advices and patches are welcome. # that is used only by Japanese, though. thanks -- Tomita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://e8y.net/ http://search.cpan.org/~tomita/