utf8::all(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation utf8::all(3pm)
NAME
utf8::all - turn on Unicode - all of it
VERSION
version 0.004
SYNOPSIS
use utf8::all; # Turn on UTF-8. All of it.
open my $in, '<', 'contains-utf8'; # UTF-8 already turned on here
print length 'foo bXr'; # 7 UTF-8 characters
my $utf8_arg = shift @ARGV; # @ARGV is UTF-8 too!
DESCRIPTION
utf8 allows you to write your Perl encoded in UTF-8. That means UTF-8 strings, variable names, and regular expressions. "utf8::all" goes
further, and makes @ARGV encoded in UTF-8, and filehandles are opened with UTF-8 encoding turned on by default (including STDIN, STDOUT,
STDERR), and charnames are imported so "N{...}" sequences can be used to compile Unicode characters based on names. If you don't want
UTF-8 for a particular filehandle, you'll have to set "binmode $filehandle".
The pragma is lexically-scoped, so you can do the following if you had some reason to:
{
use utf8::all;
open my $out, '>', 'outfile';
my $utf8_str = 'foo bXr';
print length $utf8_str, "
"; # 7
print $out $utf8_str; # out as utf8
}
open my $in, '<', 'outfile'; # in as raw
my $text = do { local $/; <$in>};
print length $text, "
"; # 10, not 7!
AVAILABILITY
The project homepage is http://metacpan.org/release/utf8-all/ <http://metacpan.org/release/utf8-all/>.
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to
find a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/utf8-all/ <http://search.cpan.org/dist/utf8-all/>.
The development version lives at http://github.com/doherty/utf8-all <http://github.com/doherty/utf8-all> and may be cloned from
git://github.com/doherty/utf8-all.git <git://github.com/doherty/utf8-all.git>. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using
the standard git and github infrastructure.
SOURCE
The development version is on github at http://github.com/doherty/utf8-all <http://github.com/doherty/utf8-all> and may be cloned from
git://github.com/doherty/utf8-all.git <git://github.com/doherty/utf8-all.git>
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at https://github.com/doherty/utf8-all/issues
<https://github.com/doherty/utf8-all/issues>.
AUTHORS
o Michael Schwern <mschwern@cpan.org>
o Mike Doherty <doherty@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Michael Schwern <mschwern@cpan.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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