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From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
November 6, 2010 02:01
Subject:
Re: Hebrew character conversion module
Message ID:
201011061100.58368.shlomif@iglu.org.il
Hi Tzadik,

On Friday 05 November 2010 23:25:40 Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote:
> I did some painstaking reverse engineering in order to convert files that
> use an old DOS Hebrew encoding (including vowels and points... this is
> beyond ISO-8859-8 and Windows-1255 which are unpointed consonants only,
> with no vowels) into Unicode.  I was never able to find any information
> online about this encoding despite extensive research, and that's why I
> needed to do the reverse engineering.
> 
> I would like to encapsulate this encoding as a Perl module, in case anyone
> ever encounters this need.
> 
> Any suggestions for a category?  Or should it be incorporated into an
> existing module?

Well, I suggest it would be Encode-Hebrew-$Something :

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode-Arabic/

I don't see why it should be incorporated into an existing module, because 
it's not of general interest.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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