wok-6.x diff perl-unicode-maputf8/description.txt @ rev 24487
updated dkms (2.8.1 -> 3.0.3)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Feb 18 17:08:02 2022 +0100 (2022-02-18) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/perl-unicode-maputf8/description.txt Fri Feb 18 17:08:02 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ 1.4 +Provides an adapter layer between core routines for converting to and from 1.5 +UTF8 and other encodings. 1.6 +In essence, a way to give multiple existing Unicode modules a single common 1.7 +interface so you don't have to know the underlaying implementations to do 1.8 +simple UTF8 to-from other character set encoding conversions. 1.9 +As such, it wraps the Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8, Unicode::Map and 1.10 +Jcode modules in a standardized and simple API. 1.11 + 1.12 +This also provides general character set conversion operation based on UTF8 1.13 +- it is possible to convert between any two compatible and supported 1.14 +character sets via a simple two step chaining of conversions. 1.15 + 1.16 +As with most things Perlish - if you give it a few big chunks of text to 1.17 +chew on instead of lots of small ones it will handle many more characters 1.18 +per second. 1.19 + 1.20 +By design, it can be easily extended to encompass any new charset encoding 1.21 +conversion modules that arrive on the scene. 1.22 + 1.23 +This module is intended to provide good Unicode support to versions of 1.24 +Perl prior to 5.8. 1.25 +If you are using Perl 5.8.0 or later, you probably want to be using the 1.26 +Encode module instead. 1.27 +This module does work with Perl 5.8, but Encode is the preferred method 1.28 +in that environment.