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Unicode::Map8
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The Unicode::Map8 class implement efficient mapping tables between
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8-bit character sets and 16 bit character sets like Unicode. About
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170 different mapping tables between various known character sets and
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Unicode is distributed with this package. The source of these tables
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is the vendor mapping tables provided by Unicode, Inc. and the code
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tables in RFC 1345. New maps can easily be installed.
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By coincidence Martin Schwartz created a similar module at the same
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time I did. His module is called Unicode::Map and should be available
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on CPAN too. Both modules now support a unified interface. Martin's
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module will be depreciated in the future.
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Since UTF8 support is coming to Perl soon, there might be good reasons
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to move this module in the direction of mapping to/from UTF8. I will
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probably do so, once the Unicode support in the Perl core settle.
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COPYRIGHT 1998-1999 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unicode-Map8/
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