Add the Encode extension. The code is still largely just skeleton.

[perl5.git] / Todo-5.6

diff --git a/Todo-5.6 b/Todo-5.6
index 04b5fe0..dfcae2b 100644 (file)
--- a/Todo-5.6
+++ b/Todo-5.6
@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ Unicode support
        to work similarly to Unicode tech reports and Java
        notation \uXXXX (and already existing \x{XXXX))?
        more than four hexdigits? make also \U+XXXX work?
+
+    see ext/Encode/Todo for notes and references about proper detection
+    of malformed UTF-8
+
+    SCSU?          http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr6/
+    Collation?     http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/
+    Normalization? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
+    EBCDIC?        http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/
+    Regexes?       http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/
+    Case Mappings? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/
+
     See also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous".
 
 Multi-threading
@@ -43,9 +54,6 @@ Namespace cleanup
     API-space:    complete the list of things that constitute public api
 
 Configure
-    fix the vicious cyclic multidependency of cc <-> libpth <-> loclibpth
-       libswanted <-> usethreads <-> use64bitint <-> use64bitall <->
-       uselargefiles <-> ...  
     make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
        this is related to: cross-compilation configuring (see Todo)
     _r support (see Todo for mode detailed description)
@@ -57,7 +65,7 @@ Configure
        PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
     IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553
        PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
-       there already is Socket6
+       there already is Socket6 in CPAN
 
 Long doubles
     figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least
@@ -133,6 +141,7 @@ Win32 stuff
     work out DLL versioning
 
 Miscellaneous
+    introduce @( and @) because group names can have spaces
     add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?)
     sub-second sleep()? alarm()? time()? (integrate Time::HiRes?
        Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but
@@ -148,10 +157,11 @@ Miscellaneous
        PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION.
        As of 5.6.1 there is cpp macro Perl_isnan().
     fix the basic arithmetics (+ - * / %) to preserve IVness/UVness if
-       both arguments are IVs/UVs
+       both arguments are IVs/UVs: it sucks that one cannot see
+       the 'carry flag' (or equivalent) of the CPU from C,
+       C is too high-level...
     replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)
     automate testing with large parts of CPAN
-    Unicode collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/
     turn Cwd into an XS module?  (Configure already probes for getcwd())
     mmap for speeding up input? (Configure already probes for the mmap family)
     sendmsg, recvmsg? (Configure doesn't probe for these but the units exist)