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diff --git a/converters/p5-Unicode-Map8/pkg-descr b/converters/p5-Unicode-Map8/pkg-descr index 3889e2c4f490..574e7039400d 100644 --- a/converters/p5-Unicode-Map8/pkg-descr +++ b/converters/p5-Unicode-Map8/pkg-descr @@ -1,22 +1,22 @@ -Unicode::Map8 -------------- - -The Unicode::Map8 class implement efficient mapping tables between -8-bit character sets and 16 bit character sets like Unicode. About -170 different mapping tables between various known character sets and -Unicode is distributed with this package. The source of these tables -is the vendor mapping tables provided by Unicode, Inc. and the code -tables in RFC 1345. New maps can easily be installed. - -By coincidence Martin Schwartz created a similar module at the same -time I did. His module is called Unicode::Map and should be available -on CPAN too. Both modules now support a unified interface. Martin's -module will be depreciated in the future. - +Unicode::Map8 +------------- + +The Unicode::Map8 class implement efficient mapping tables between +8-bit character sets and 16 bit character sets like Unicode. About +170 different mapping tables between various known character sets and +Unicode is distributed with this package. The source of these tables +is the vendor mapping tables provided by Unicode, Inc. and the code +tables in RFC 1345. New maps can easily be installed. + +By coincidence Martin Schwartz created a similar module at the same +time I did. His module is called Unicode::Map and should be available +on CPAN too. Both modules now support a unified interface. Martin's +module will be depreciated in the future. + Since UTF8 support is coming to Perl soon, there might be good reasons to move this module in the direction of mapping to/from UTF8. I will probably do so, once the Unicode support in the Perl core settle. -COPYRIGHT 1998-1999 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. +COPYRIGHT 1998-1999 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unicode-Map8/ |