wok-6.x annotate perl-unicode-maputf8/description.txt @ rev 24489
updated dmidecode (3.2 -> 3.3)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Feb 18 17:31:24 2022 +0100 (2022-02-18) |
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Hans-G?nter@24266 | 1 Provides an adapter layer between core routines for converting to and from |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 2 UTF8 and other encodings. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 3 In essence, a way to give multiple existing Unicode modules a single common |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 4 interface so you don't have to know the underlaying implementations to do |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 5 simple UTF8 to-from other character set encoding conversions. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 6 As such, it wraps the Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8, Unicode::Map and |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 7 Jcode modules in a standardized and simple API. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 8 |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 9 This also provides general character set conversion operation based on UTF8 |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 10 - it is possible to convert between any two compatible and supported |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 11 character sets via a simple two step chaining of conversions. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 12 |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 13 As with most things Perlish - if you give it a few big chunks of text to |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 14 chew on instead of lots of small ones it will handle many more characters |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 15 per second. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 16 |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 17 By design, it can be easily extended to encompass any new charset encoding |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 18 conversion modules that arrive on the scene. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 19 |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 20 This module is intended to provide good Unicode support to versions of |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 21 Perl prior to 5.8. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 22 If you are using Perl 5.8.0 or later, you probably want to be using the |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 23 Encode module instead. |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 24 This module does work with Perl 5.8, but Encode is the preferred method |
Hans-G?nter@24266 | 25 in that environment. |