[Encode] 2.09 released!

Porters,

I have just released Encode-2.09, AKA GAAS special.   Gisle, thank you 
for all the reports and patches.  Wish they were done before 5.8.6 :)

=head1 Availability

http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/cpan/Encode-2.09.tar.gz
or CPAN near you

=head1 Changes

$Revision: 2.9 $ $Date: 2004/12/03 19:16:53 $
! Encode.pm Encode.xs
   Addressed " :encoding(utf8) broken in perl-5.8.6".
   Message-Id: <[email protected]>
! Encode.pm
   Addressed "(de|en)code($valid_encoding, undef) does not warn".
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8723
! Encode.pm t/Encode.t
   Addressed "Can't encode URI".  When a reference is fed to (en|de)code,
   Encode now stringifies instead of returning undef.
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8725
! Encode.xs t/fallback.t
   Addressed "FB_HTMLCREF and FB_XMLCREF for the UTF-8 decoder".
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8694
! Encode.pm
   Addressed "s/digit/number/".
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8695
! Encode.pm
   Addressed "while (defined(read )) { ... } is an infinite loop".
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8696
! Encode.pm
   Addressed "What the heck is UCM?".
   Document fixed so that it no longer contains "UCM-Based Encodings".
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8697

=head1 NOTE

I am in the middle of moving out and I will not settle till Dec. 10th 
or so.  So please be patient if you ever RT'd or mailed me on Encode.

=head1 Murphy's Law of Patches

* Patches come after the RC period is over.
* Patches come when you are hauling.

=head1 Signature

Dan the Encode Maintainer