Re: [loewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Bug#131512: Need UTF-8 archives]

Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu> · Mon, 04 Feb 2002 09:05:02 -0800

On February 1, 2002 at 13:28, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

> I received a UTF-8 feature request/patch [1] for MHonARC from a a Debian
> GNU/Linux user. Any comments? Is this something that MHonArc might
> consider incorporating directly?

> 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131512&repeatmerged=yes

It looks like the MHonArc::UTF8 modules has an error:

    $msg = entify($msg) unless $;

Regardless, I like the contribution.  Since it relies on a non-standard
module, Unicode::MapUTF8, I can include the information within the
MHonArc distribution, and the MHonArc::UTF8 module, but users would
have to explicitly activate it.  I can add a note in the installation
docs about UTF8 usage providing the information contributed by Martin.

A good sign about the contribution is that no code modifications
were required (yet).  The contribution could be considered a partial
solution since MHonArc is not Unicode-aware when processing resource
files and resource variables.  If resource files are maintained in
the ASCII realm, using entity references for 8-bit, or greater sized,
characters, internal unicode-awareness is not required.

--ewh