Re: Perl Encode package

[email protected] (Guido Flohr) Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:14:56 +0100
Newsgroups perl.unicode
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> Nguyen Tien Dan wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Now , Im using Perl  5.005_03 on FreeBSD 4.11.
>>
>> Have a Encode version support for this Perl version.
> 
> Encode is only available for Perl 5.8
> There is an Encode-compat for Perl 5.6.1, but I don't think it's really used
> by anyone. And anyway, Perl before 5.6 didn't have support for Unicode.

You can use either Text::Iconv or Locale::Recode if you are only 
interested in recoding from inside Perl.  Text::Iconv is a lot faster 
than Locale::Recode because it is internally implemented in C.

Cheers,
Guido
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