| Name : perl-Encode
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| Version : 2.33
| Vendor : dankogai_cpan_org
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| Release : 2.1
| Date : 2013-05-28 17:25:11
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| Group : Applications/CPAN
| Source RPM : perl-Encode-2.33-2.1.src.rpm
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| Size : 20.58 MB
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| Packager : Holger Manthey < holger_manthey_bertelsmann_de>
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| Summary : Encode - character encodings
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Description :
The C< Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl\'s strings
and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
B< characters>.
The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
values of the characters (as returned by C< ord(ch)>) is the \"Unicode
codepoint\" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
of ASCII - see L< perlebcdic>).
Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
often called \"bytes\". These chunks are also known as \"octets\" in
networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
languages but also \"binary\" data being the machine\'s representation of
numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
When Perl is processing \"binary data\", the programmer wants Perl to
process \"sequences of bytes\". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl\'s much larger
\"logical character\".
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