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     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.