NAME

Encode - character encodings

SYNOPSIS

   use Encode;

COMMAND LINE

   $ encguess README.md
   README.md    US-ASCII

See encguess -h for more options.

DESCRIPTION

The “Encode” module provides the interfaces between Perl’s strings and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of characters.

   See `perldoc Encode` for the rest of the story

INSTALLATION

To install this module, type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

To install scripts under bin/ directories also,

   perl Makefile.PL MORE_SCRIPTS
   make && make test && make install

By default, only enc2xs and piconv are installed.

To install *.ucm files also, say

   perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_UCM
   make && make test && make install

By default, *.ucm are not installed.

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires perl 5.7.3 or later.

MAINTAINER

This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained by Dan Kogai <dankogai at dan.co.jp>. See AUTHORS for the full list of people involved.

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions which perldoc Encode does not answer, please feel free to ask at perl-unicode@perl.org.