patch/task-unicode-pm5

Task::Unicode (Perl 5): Everything needed to work with Unicode data

NAME

Task::Unicode - Everything needed to work with Unicode data

VERSION

This document describes Task::Unicode v0.06.

DESCRIPTION

This Task module installs everything needed for working with Unicode and UTF-8 strings as well as a number of modules and utilities to assist in development and debugging. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive bundle of Unicode modules on the CPAN. Instead, it is a collection of the essential and some of the most useful general-purpose modules.

This is an early release of Task::Unicode and the bundled module list is not yet complete. Modules may be added or removed. Please contact the author with suggestions for upcoming releases.

The brief module descriptions are currently taken directly from each module. In the future, these will be slightly expanded and explained for those with less Unicode knowledge.

MODULES

• Unicode::CaseFold

  Unicode case-folding for case-insensitive lookups

• Unicode::Casing

  Perl extension to override system case changing functions

• Unicode::Collate::Locale

  Linguistic tailoring for DUCET via Unicode::Collate

• Unicode::GCString

  String as Sequence of UAX #29 Grapheme Clusters

• Unicode::LineBreak

  Line Folding for Plain Text

• Unicode::Regex::Set

  Subtraction and Intersection of Character Sets in Unicode Regular Expressions

• Unicode::Stringprep

  Preparation of Internationalized Strings (RFC 3454)

• Unicode::UTF8

  Encoding and decoding of UTF-8 encoding form

• Unicode::Util

  Unicode-aware versions of built-in Perl functions

• utf8::all

  Turn on Unicode—all of it

DEBUGGING

• String::Dump

  Dump strings of characters or bytes for printing and debugging

• Encode::DoubleEncodedUTF8

  Fix double-encoded UTF-8 bytes to the correct one

UTILITIES

• App::Uni

  Command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters

• Unicode::Tussle

  Tom’s Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier (only installed with Perl 5.14+)

SEE ALSO

This task requires Perl v5.10, which bundles the following important modules.

• charnames

  Access to Unicode character names and named character sequences; also define character names

• utf8

  Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code

• open

  Perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output

• Encode

  Character encodings in Perl

• Unicode::Collate

  Unicode Collation Algorithm

• Unicode::Normalize

  Unicode Normalization Forms

• Unicode::UCD

  Unicode character database

AUTHOR

Nick Patch patch@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

© 2012–2014 Nick Patch

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.