Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!huron.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!feta.direct.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.he.net!news.aracnet.com!news.rain.net!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: Michael Piotrowski Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules Subject: ANNOUNCE: Locale::Iconv Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 3 Sep 1997 21:14:54 GMT Organization: CLUE -- Computerlinguistik Uni Erlangen Lines: 44 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5ukk0e$9dd$1@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:17 comp.lang.perl.modules:663 I've just uploaded Locale::Iconv to PAUSE; it should be available on CPAN soon, under authors/id/MPIOTR. Alternatively, you can get it from ftp://ftp.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/perl. Its Module List entry is: Name DSLI Description Info ------------- ---- -------------------------------------------- ----- Text::Iconv bdcO Convert charsets with XPG4 iconv() function MPIOTR As you can see, this is a beta release, that is, it has not yet been extensively tested. Consequently, I'll be grateful for bug reports and comments. The following is an extract from the README file: Description ----------- This module provides a Perl interface to the XPG4 iconv() function. It is largely untested, especially for state-dependent encodings. For more details see the pod documentation embedded in the file iconv.pm. Prerequisites ------------- Your system should be compliant with XPG4 or at least provide iconv_open(), iconv() and iconv_close() functions compliant with XPG4. Note that the possible conversions and the quality of the conversions depend on the available iconv conversion tables and algorithms, which are in most cases supplied by the operating system vendor. Some systems also allow you to build your own tables (e.g. HP-UX, Digital UNIX, and AIX provide the genxlt(1) command). -- If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all. (Scheiffler/Gettys) .................................................................. Michael Piotrowski mxp@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de .