<package name="perl-Unicode-MapUTF8" project="devel:perl">

  <title>Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8</title>

  <description>Provides an adapter layer between core routines for converting to and from

UTF8 and other encodings. In essence, a way to give multiple existing

Unicode modules a single common interface so you don't have to know the

underlaying implementations to do simple UTF8 to-from other character set

encoding conversions. As such, it wraps the Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8,

Unicode::Map and Jcode modules in a standardized and simple API.

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This also provides general character set conversion operation based on UTF8

- it is possible to convert between any two compatible and supported

character sets via a simple two step chaining of conversions.

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As with most things Perlish - if you give it a few big chunks of text to

chew on instead of lots of small ones it will handle many more characters

per second.

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By design, it can be easily extended to encompass any new charset encoding

conversion modules that arrive on the scene.

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This module is intended to provide good Unicode support to versions of Perl

prior to 5.8. If you are using Perl 5.8.0 or later, you probably want to be

using the Encode module instead. This module does work with Perl 5.8, but

Encode is the preferred method in that environment.

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Author:

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    Benjamin Franz <snowhare@nihongo.org>

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</description>

  <url>http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Unicode::MapUTF8</url>

</package>

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