Encode-2.09もリリースされています。 Gisle Aasがかなり直しを入れてくれました。

=head1 Changes

$Revision: 2.9 $ $Date: 2004/12/03 19:16:53 $
! Encode.pm Encode.xs
  Addressed " :encoding(utf8) broken in perl-5.8.6".
  Message-Id: <lrllcfeank.fsf_-_@caliper.activestate.com>
! Encode.pm
  Addressed "(de|en)code($valid_encoding, undef) does not warn".
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8723
! Encode.pm t/Encode.t
  Addressed "Can't encode URI".  When a reference is fed to (en|de)code,
  Encode now stringifies instead of returning undef.
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8725
! Encode.xs t/fallback.t
  Addressed "FB_HTMLCREF and FB_XMLCREF for the UTF-8 decoder".
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8694
! Encode.pm
  Addressed "s/digit/number/".
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8695
! Encode.pm
  Addressed "while (defined(read )) { ... } is an infinite loop".
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8696
! Encode.pm
  Addressed "What the heck is UCM?".
  Document fixed so that it no longer contains "UCM-Based Encodings".
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8697