Re: [Po4a-devel]Winedocs and Po4a dependencies
Martin Quinson wrote:
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>My next question has to do with the wrapper implementation. I did
not
>check it out in details but it seems like it works on the multibyte
>string. Wouldn't it be possible to implement a wrapper using the Perl
>5.8 Unicode support?
Maybe. But this version is not really widespread yet, is it?
Actually it is quite widespread. It ships with Debian testing, RedHat >=
8.0, all Fedora Core obviously, SuSE >= 8.2, Mandrake >= 9.1 and maybe
even some older versions of these distributions.
But the point is moot since po4a already depends on the Encode module:
it's used in Man.pm, Po.pm, Text.pm and TransTractor.pm. I think this
means po4a already depends on perl 5.8 but maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, the Encode module is the one that's needed for the
implementation I sketched.
If you come up
with a working implementation of that (I'm really bad at such issues and
leave Denis or Jordi answer), you could test whether we are using perl >=
5.8 and if not, fallback to libtext-wrap18n-perl, couldn't you?
Unfortunately I'm not sure I can come up with a working implementation.
I'd have to look at WrapI18N in more details first. I'm sure I'm missing
something.
Also the problem if I did come up with something is that I don't know
enough about CKJ languages to actually verify my implementation would
work with them.
You could also not wrap anything when the dependency isn't there.
As temp
solution, it would perfectly work, I guess.
Yes, that seems like a much easier target. I'll try that first <g>.
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