[Po4a-devel]Winedocs and Po4a dependencies

[Francois Gouget]

Martin Quinson wrote:
[...]
>>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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Francois Gouget
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