Re: perldoc translation repository

At 03:36 PM 2003-07-16 +0200, Stefano Rodighiero wrote:
>We use E<> for characters like è, é and so on. I don't know if this is 
>good for other languages (I think not).

You could have just used literal è and é characters -- everything you need 
for Italian is in Latin-1, which is (to make a long story short) the 
default for Pod.  Any pod parsers/formatters that can't cope with that 
notion deserve to be driven out of town.

Anyway, to deal with languages that aren't a good fit with Latin-1, I'm 
working on a =encoding directive for Pod that will mean you can have 
documents in an arbitrary encoding -- you could write your Chinese stuff 
with "=encoding big5", Thai stuff with "=encoding iso-8859-11", 
etc.  (Having more than one "=encoding" declaration per document is 
probably forbidden.)

But if you're talking about having documents where each document contains 
arbitrarily many-and-different languages, presumably Unicode is the way to 
go, presumably with a happy "=encode utf8" directive at the top.

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Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/