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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-03-08 15:44:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-03-08 15:44:05 +0000 |
| commit | 8bce63280b3370f72578c8c11f304c54fb1b5048 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ea384872f76807cb842f1e5a617873a84d6865e /Todo-5.6 | |
| parent | fe32fb7333e7c731e92e2942d9dfe321e72b3a05 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8bce63280b3370f72578c8c11f304c54fb1b5048.tar.gz | |
ICU todo fixes.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5617
Diffstat (limited to 'Todo-5.6')
| -rw-r--r-- | Todo-5.6 | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -58,15 +58,22 @@ Long doubles Locales deprecate traditional/legacy locales? + How do locales work across packages? figure out how to support Unicode locales suggestion: integrate the IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) - http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/index.html + http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/ and check out also the Locale Converter: http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/localeconverter - ICU has it all: locales and character sets, the 'iconv' seems to have - 'only' the character sets. Either would be valuable to get integrated + ICU is "portable, open-source Unicode library with: + charset-independent locales (with multiple locales simultaneously + supported in same thread; character conversions; formatting/parsing + for numbers, currencies, date/time and messages; message catalogs + (resources) ; transliteration, collation, normalization, and text + boundaries (grapheme, word, line-break))". + There is also 'iconv', either from XPG4 or GNU (glibc). + iconv is about character set conversions. + Either ICU or iconv would be valuable to get integrated into Perl, Configure already probes for libiconv and <iconv.h>. - How do locales work across packages? Regexen make RE engine thread-safe |