Perlunicode

PERLUNICODE(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLUNICODE(1)

Perlunicode

PERLUNICODE(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLUNICODE(1) # PERLUNICODE(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLUNICODE(1) NNAAMMEE # perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN # If you haven't already, before reading this document, you should become familiar with both perlunitut and perluniintro. Unicode aims to UUNNII-fy the en-CCOODDEE-ings of all the world's character sets into a single Standard. For quite a few of the various coding standards that existed when Unicode was first created, converting from each to Unicode essentially meant adding a constant to each code point in the original standard, and converting back meant just subtracting that same constant. ...