OT: codepage conversion

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Hello,
Does anyone know a news group where I can ask about codepage convertion?
I do not want codesnippets I only want to know about algorithm and
knowledge about it.
The background is that one of my modules uses codepage tables to convert
from codepage xxx to unicode, and now I have to know how to convert
from unicode to codepage xxx or from codepage xxx to codepage yyy.
No, I do not want to use existing libraries like iconv. I looked into
iconv but it seems to that it has no support for EBCDIC to xxx and vice
versa. And I want to be independent from any OS specific code.



Thank you,
Reinhard

[Nicholas Clark]

Post by Reinhard Pagitsch
Hello,
Does anyone know a news group where I can ask about codepage convertion?
I do not want codesnippets I only want to know about algorithm and
knowledge about it.
The background is that one of my modules uses codepage tables to convert
from codepage xxx to unicode, and now I have to know how to convert
from unicode to codepage xxx or from codepage xxx to codepage yyy.
No, I do not want to use existing libraries like iconv. I looked into
iconv but it seems to that it has no support for EBCDIC to xxx and vice
versa. And I want to be independent from any OS specific code.

And you don't want to use the Encode module itself?
In which case you could look at its source code.

perl-unicode is probably the closes mailing list to what you're looking for:

http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-unicode

Nicholas Clark

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Post by Nicholas Clark

Post by Reinhard Pagitsch
Hello,
Does anyone know a news group where I can ask about codepage convertion?
I do not want codesnippets I only want to know about algorithm and
knowledge about it.
The background is that one of my modules uses codepage tables to convert
from codepage xxx to unicode, and now I have to know how to convert
from unicode to codepage xxx or from codepage xxx to codepage yyy.
No, I do not want to use existing libraries like iconv. I looked into
iconv but it seems to that it has no support for EBCDIC to xxx and vice
versa. And I want to be independent from any OS specific code.

And you don't want to use the Encode module itself?
In which case you could look at its source code.

Hm, as I can see it is only available up to perl 5.8.x? But I also need
to support perl v5.6.1. I looked into the code of Encode. What I missing
is codepage 273 (German EBCDIC SBCS) and also some other EBCDIC
codepages. I have 131 codepage tables.

Post by Nicholas Clark
http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-unicode

Oh, thanks, I will giv it a try.

regards,
Reinhard