Re: [cgiirc-general] CGI:IRC 0.5.5pre1

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

Julien WAJSBERG wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, David Leadbeater wrote:
> 
> > # The charset to send to IRC, to send anything other than UTF-8 you will
> > # need the Text::Iconv perl module installed. Any character set supported
> > # by your system iconv should work here.
> 
> I just remembered the module Encode (perldoc Encode)... it is standard but
> I think it only comes with perl 5.8, so Text::Iconv should be more
> portable.

It seems to require perl 5.8 (well 5.7), so for now I'll leave it with Text::Iconv
I think. I probably ought to test this on 5.8 to see that my utf8 stuff doesn't
interfere with any of perl's..