[rt-devel] Re: I18N with Perl 5.6.1 and Solaris 8

[Stanislav Sinyagin]

Looks like it was blocked because of the size. 
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--- Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Autrijus and all, 
> 
> I've made few tests of the mail gateway (rt-2-1-78) concerning the international 
> support with Perl 5.6.1 on Solaris 2.8, and here are my concerns:
> 
> 1). When the incoming mail is UTF-8, everything's fine. 
> 
> 2). When the incoming mail is Latin1 (iso-8859-1) or Russian (koi8-r), 
> there are problems in compatibility between Encode::compat::Alias.pm
> and Solaris 8 iconv(3C).
> 
> I didn't work with iconv before today, so I have no idea how 
> this applies to other OSes. 
> 
> In Solaris, iconv is sensitive to the charset name. It looks up 
> the filenames in /usr/lib/iconv/ for the corresponding from-to pair, and 
> issues error if there's no such file. See the whole directory listing, attached.
> From the listing, you can see that:
> Latin1 is recognized as "ISO8859-1" or "8859-1" instead of "iso-8859-1", 
> Unicode is recognized as "UTF-8" instead of "utf-8", 
> Cyrillics is recognized as "KOI8-R" or "koi8-r" (interesting (8^))
> 
> Thus, Encode::compat::Alias.pm needs to adaptate its predefined aliases 
> to Solaris special case...
> 
> I'll be glad to perform the tests if there's any update from Autrijus. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Stan