Revision history for Perl extension Text::Iconv.

0.01 Sat Aug 23 16:14:12 1997

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18

1.0 Sun Feb 27 16:50:11 MET 2000

• renamed to Text::Iconv.

1.1 Mon Dec 18 00:50:45 MET 2000

• works with Perl 5.6
• improved and expanded test script
• fixes core dumps with aborted conversions
• adds experimental class attribute/method raise_error

1.2 Fri Jul 27 10:46:56 METDST 2001

• converting undef now always returns undef
• since HP-UX seems to be the only platform where the second argument to iconv() is not const char**, put an #ifdef into Iconv.xs

1.3 Mon Jun 28 19:25:43 CEST 2004

• Makefile.PL now tries to detect the need for -liconv
• added retval() method to Text::Iconv objects, which returns the iconv() return value (according to the Single UNIX Specification, "the number of non-identical conversions performed")
• to make this possible, Text::Iconv objects are--on the C level--no longer just the iconv handle, but a struct (which can contain other information besides the handle)

1.4 Sun Jul 18 00:09:21 CEST 2004

• Added instance attribute raise_error and corresponding method to control exception raising on a per-object basis.
• Reset shift state for state-dependent conversions.
• Makefile.PL now passes all options besides LIBS and INC to MakeMaker, so options like INSTALLDIRS=vendor work again.

1.5 Thu Aug 30 14:42:08 CEST 2007

• Various small changes to make Text::Iconv compile on OpenVMS (based on a patch by Peter (Stig) Edwards)
• Output buffer was always initialized to 5 bytes--this was just for testing, but I'd forgotten to revert back to the original code (detected via a bug report by Aldo LeTellier).

1.6 Sat Oct 13 00:16:30 CEST 2007

• Makefile.PL now uses File::Spec to portably specify the null device. This should make it possible to build Text::Iconv on Windows "out of the box".
• Added get_attr() and set_attr() methods. They provide an interface to the iconvctl() function of GNU libiconv.

1.7 Wed Oct 17 15:49:56 CEST 2007

• Makefile.PL now explicitly declares "use 5.006;" since it uses functionality like delete() for array elements.
• In Iconv.xs, moved the variable declarations in ti_set_attr() and ti_get_attr() into the PREINIT: section. This makes it possible to compile it using gcc 2.96.