Re: Encoding iso-8859-16

Hi 

The test case uses the invariant character that is below <127 on
ISO-8859-16 codepage. Since character 'a' has a codepoint of  129 on
EBCDIC, is there a place in the code where it should apply
NATIVE_TO_ASCII  macro on the input character?

-Sastry


On 8/19/05, Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:01:04PM +0530, Sastry wrote:
> > Hi Nicholas
> >
> > With reference to my previous mail on encoding module
> >
> > use Encode;
> > $string = "a";
> > $enc_string = encode("iso-8859-16", $string);
> > print "\n String: $string\n";
> > print "\n enc_string: $enc_string\n";
> >
> > a)How different are those ext/Encode/def_t.c and
> > ext/Encode/Byte/byte_t.c  files in EBCDIC and ASCII platforms?
> 
> I don't know. I have no experience of EBCDIC. The files describe converting
> from perl's internal representation to a fixed external representation.
> So I assume that they have to differ because the internal representation
> differs.
> 
> > b) Why is it when I copied the above .c files from ASCII platform to
> > EBCDIC worked for any codepage except  IBM-1047 codepage on EBCDCI
> > platform?
> 
> I don't know. How thorough are the tests? Do the tests check for the
> conversion of characters with Unicode code points >127?
> 
> You're asking questions beyond my knowledge.
> 
> Nicholas Clark
>