Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
From: Nicholas Bamber <nicho...@periapt.co.uk> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Subject: ITP: libencode-locale-perl -- utility to determine the locale encoding Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:37:47 +0000 Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber <nicho...@periapt.co.uk> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name : libencode-locale-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas <gi...@activestate.com> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode-Locale/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : utility to determine the locale encoding In many applications it's wise to let Perl use Unicode for the strings it processes. Most of the interfaces Perl has to the outside world is still byte based. Programs therefore needs to decode byte strings that enter the program from the outside and encode them again on the way out. The POSIX locale system is used to specify both the language conventions requested by the user and the preferred character set to consume and output. The Encode::Locale module looks up the charset and encoding (called a CODESET in the locale jargon) and arrange for the Encode module to know this encoding under the name "locale". It means bytes obtained from the environment can be converted to Unicode strings by calling Encode::encode(locale => $bytes) and converted back again with Encode::decode(locale => $string). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
