NAME

Task::Unicode - Everything needed to work with Unicode data

VERSION

This document describes Task::Unicode version 0.05.

DESCRIPTION

This Task module installs everything needed for working with Unicode and UTF-8 strings as well as a number of modules and utilities to assist in development and debugging. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive bundle of Unicode modules on the CPAN. Instead, it is a collection of the essential and some of the most useful general-purpose modules.

This is an early release of Task::Unicode and the bundled module list is not yet complete. Modules may be added or removed. Please contact the author with suggestions for upcoming releases.

The brief module descriptions are currently taken directly from each module. In the future, these will be slightly expanded and explained for those with less Unicode knowledge.

MODULES

Unicode::CaseFold

Unicode case-folding for case-insensitive lookups

Unicode::Collate::Locale

Linguistic tailoring for DUCET via Unicode::Collate

Unicode::GCString

String as Sequence of UAX #29 Grapheme Clusters

Unicode::LineBreak

Line Folding for Plain Text

Unicode::Regex::Set

Subtraction and Intersection of Character Sets in Unicode Regular Expressions

Unicode::Stringprep

Preparation of Internationalized Strings (RFC 3454)

Unicode::Util

Unicode-aware versions of built-in Perl functions

utf8::all

Turn on Unicode—all of it

DEBUGGING

String::Dump

Dump strings of characters or bytes for printing and debugging

Encode::DoubleEncodedUTF8

Fix double-encoded UTF-8 bytes to the correct one

UTILITIES

App::Uni

Command-line utility to grep UnicodeData.txt

Unicode::Tussle

Tom’s Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier (only installed with Perl 5.14+)

SEE ALSO

This task requires Perl 5.8.0, which bundles the following important modules.

charnames

Access to Unicode character names and named character sequences; also define character names

utf8

Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code

open

Perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output

Encode

Character encodings in Perl

Unicode::Collate

Unicode Collation Algorithm

Unicode::Normalize

Unicode Normalization Forms

Unicode::UCD

Unicode character database

AUTHOR

Nick Patch <patch@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

© 2012 Nick Patch

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.