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| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Sun Feb 12 10:26:56 2023 +0000 (22 months ago) |
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1 Provides an adapter layer between core routines for converting to and from
2 UTF8 and other encodings.
3 In essence, a way to give multiple existing Unicode modules a single common
4 interface so you don't have to know the underlaying implementations to do
5 simple UTF8 to-from other character set encoding conversions.
6 As such, it wraps the Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8, Unicode::Map and
7 Jcode modules in a standardized and simple API.
9 This also provides general character set conversion operation based on UTF8
10 - it is possible to convert between any two compatible and supported
11 character sets via a simple two step chaining of conversions.
13 As with most things Perlish - if you give it a few big chunks of text to
14 chew on instead of lots of small ones it will handle many more characters
15 per second.
17 By design, it can be easily extended to encompass any new charset encoding
18 conversion modules that arrive on the scene.
20 This module is intended to provide good Unicode support to versions of
21 Perl prior to 5.8.
22 If you are using Perl 5.8.0 or later, you probably want to be using the
23 Encode module instead.
24 This module does work with Perl 5.8, but Encode is the preferred method
25 in that environment.