NAME
Latin2 - Source code filter to escape Latin-2 script
SYNOPSIS
use Latin2; # usage for application programmers
DESCRIPTION
The Latin2 software provides character oriented Perl scripting
environment in Latin-2 by easy installation and easy usage.
- Character oriented regular expression
- Character oriented run-time routines
- Character oriented subroutines
and
- Byte oriented CORE::* functions
- Byte oriented regular expression on /b modifier
Information processing model beginning with Perl3 or this software.
+--------------------------------------------+
| Text strings as Binary strings |
| Binary strings as Text strings |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Not UTF8 Flagged, UNIX/C-ism |
+--------------------------------------------+
Script could be written in native encoding of operating systems.
- Like contents of a file
- Like a file name on the file systems
- Like command lines
- Like environment variables
- Like parameters of API
In UNIX Everything is a File
- In UNIX everything is a stream of bytes
- In UNIX the filesystem is used as a universal name space
INSTALLATION
Just copy Latin2.pm and Elatin2.pm to your @INC directory.
For example, to C:\Perl\site\lib
SUBROUTINES
Latin2::length(charstring)
Latin2::substr(charstring, charpos, charlen)
and more...
SEE ALSO
http://search.cpan.org/~ina/