Subject: ANNOUNCE: Locale::Iconv
From: Michael Piotrowski <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 Sep 1997 21:14:54 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

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)
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Michael Piotrowski                 [email-masked]