Hello All,
It startled me recently, that Glib-perl exports the filename conversion
functions, but not the rest of the iconv stuff. Is there any particular
reason it does not include them, or just noone needed them yet?
I agree that perl strings should be utf-8 in a gtk2-perl application.
But that is exactly it -- strings read from files, passed as parameters
etc. will be in local encoding. And perl's support for this is not too
good -- I failed to find a simple way to say something should be recoded
from systems default encoding (as determined from LC_CTYPE) -- that is
without including another, otherwise useless, module manualy.
So I suggest that Glib module (since glib does this finding out
automaticaly) exports the g_get_charset function (at minimal). That way
one can simply say:
use Glib;
use encoding Glib->get_charset;
Instead of:
use Glib;
use I18N::Langinfo qw(langinfo CODESET);
use encoding langinfo(CODESET);
(I'd prefer Glib->charset or glib_charset, though it would be
incosistent with naming scheme a little).
In addition it would be nice if glib registered an alias (calling
Encode::Alias module) for that encoding. Say 'local' or 'system'. Then
above would be just:
use Glib;
use encoding 'local';
and in addition ':encoding(local)' would work for open and/or binmode
(function calls do not interpolate, so this would be simpler).
The rest of iconv stuff is not essential (Encode module can be used),
but I would really like to see at least the charset detection.
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>
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