[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] [COPY] Filename: package/.../perl-unicode-map8/perl-unicode-map8.desc [COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project [COPY] [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the [COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [I] Perl module that maps tables between 8-bit character sets and 16 bit [T] The Unicode::Map8 class implement efficient mapping tables between [T] 8-bit character sets and 16 bit character sets like Unicode. About [T] 170 different mapping tables between various known character sets and [T] Unicode is distributed with this package. The source of these tables [T] is the vendor mapping tables provided by Unicode, Inc. and the code [T] tables in RFC 1345. New maps can easily be installed. [T] [T] By coincidence Martin Schwartz created a similar module at the same [T] time I did. His module is called Unicode::Map and should be available [T] on CPAN too. Both modules now support a unified interface. Martin's [T] module will be depreciated in the future. [T] [T] Since UTF8 support is coming to Perl soon, there might be good reasons [T] to move this module in the direction of mapping to/from UTF8. I will [T] probably do so, once the Unicode support in the Perl core settle. [U] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unicode-Map8/ [A] Gisle Aas [M] Alejandro Mery [C] extra/development [L] OpenSource [S] Stable [V] 0.13 [P] X -----5---9 114.000 [D] 4284749094 Unicode-Map8-0.13.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/