Unicode support
finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions
- make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion
add Unicode::Map equivivalent to core
add support for I/O disciplines
- a way to specify disciplines when opening things:
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?
+ overloadable regex assertions? e.g. in Thai \b cannot
+ be deduced by any simple character class boundary rules,
+ word boundaries must algorithmically computed
+
+ 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
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
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)
+ sockatmark?
setitimer, getitimer? (the metaconfig units exist)
Ongoing