Hi, Welcome to Unicode::Map version 0.108. This release fixes problems with mixed byte character sets (as GB2312) and cares for a better compatibility with Unicode::Map8. DESCRIPTION This module converts strings from and to 2-byte Unicode UCS2 format. All mappings happen via 2 byte UTF16 encodings, not via 1 byte UTF8 encoding. To transform these use Unicode::String. For historical reasons this module coexists with Unicode::Map8. Please use Unicode::Map8 unless you need to care for two byte character sets, e.g. chinese GB2312. Anyway, if you stick to the basic functionality (see documentation) you can use both modules equivalently. Practically this module will disappear from earth sooner or later as Unicode mapping support needs somehow to get into perl's core. If you like to work on this field please don't hesitate contacting Gisle Aas! REQUIRED MODULES No further modules are necessary. In former releases you needed the module Startup, but no longer. You need the libwww-perl distribution to run the utility mirrorMappings. This module resides on your favorite CPAN mirror or at: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/perl/ Contact: Martin Schwartz Character sets available: 01: ADOBE-DINGBATS 02: ADOBE-STANDARD (Adobe-Standard-Encoding, csAdobeStandardEncoding) 03: ADOBE-SYMBOL (csHPPSMath) 04: APPLE-ARABIC 05: APPLE-CENTEURO 06: APPLE-CHINSIMP 07: APPLE-CHINTRAD 08: APPLE-CROATIAN 09: APPLE-CYRILLIC (APPLE-UKRAINE) 10: APPLE-DEVANAGA 11: APPLE-DINGBATS 12: APPLE-GREEK 13: APPLE-HEBREW 14: APPLE-ICELAND 15: APPLE-JAPANESE 16: APPLE-KOREAN 17: APPLE-ROMAN 18: APPLE-ROMANIAN 19: APPLE-SYMBOL 20: APPLE-THAI 21: APPLE-TURKISH 22: BIG5 23: CNS-11643-1986 24: CP037 (IBM037, csIBM037, ebcdic-cp-ca, ebcdic-cp-nl, ebcdic-cp-us, ebcdic-cp-wt) 25: CP1026 (IBM1026, csIBM1026) 26: CP1250 (windows-1250) 27: CP1251 (windows-1251) 28: CP1252 (windows-1252) 29: CP1253 (windows-1253) 30: CP1254 (windows-1254) 31: CP1255 (windows-1255) 32: CP1256 (windows-1256) 33: CP1257 (windows-1257) 34: CP1258 (windows-1258) 35: CP437 (437, IBM437, csPC8CodePage437) 36: CP500 (IBM500, csIBM500, ebcdic-cp-be, ebcdic-cp-ch) 37: CP737 38: CP775 (IBM775, csPC775Baltic) 39: CP850 (850, IBM850, csPC850Multilingual) 40: CP852 (852, IBM852, csPCp852) 41: CP855 (855, IBM855, csIBM855) 42: CP857 (857, IBM857, csIBM857) 43: CP860 (860, IBM860, csIBM860) 44: CP861 (861, IBM861, cp-is, csIBM861) 45: CP862 (862, IBM862, csPC862LatinHebrew) 46: CP863 (863, IBM863, csIBM863) 47: CP864 (IBM864, csIBM864) 48: CP865 (865, IBM865, csIBM865) 49: CP866 (866, IBM866, csIBM866) 50: CP869 (869, IBM869, cp-gr, csIBM869) 51: CP874 52: CP875 53: CP932 54: CP936 55: CP949 56: CP950 57: GB12345-80 58: GB2312 (csGB2312) 59: GB2312-80 (GB_2312-80, chinese, csISO58GB231280, iso-ir-58) 60: IBM038 (CP038, EBCDIC-INT, csIBM038) 61: ISO-8859-1 (CP819, IBM819, ISO-IR-100, ISO_8859-1:1987, L1, LATIN1) 62: ISO-8859-10 (ISO-IR-157, ISO_8859-10:1993, L6, LATIN6) 63: ISO-8859-13 64: ISO-8859-14 65: ISO-8859-15 66: ISO-8859-2 (ISO-IR-101, ISO_8859-2:1987, L2, LATIN2) 67: ISO-8859-3 (ISO-IR-109, ISO_8859-3:1988, L3, LATIN3) 68: ISO-8859-4 (ISO-IR-110, ISO_8859-4:1988, L4, LATIN4) 69: ISO-8859-5 (CYRILLIC, ISO-IR-144, ISO_8859-5:1988) 70: ISO-8859-6 (ARABIC, ASMO-708, ECMA-114, ISO-IR-127, ISO_8859-6:1987) 71: ISO-8859-7 (ECMA-118, ELOT_928, GREEK, GREEK8, ISO-IR-126, ISO_8859-7:1987) 72: ISO-8859-8 (HEBREW, ISO-IR-138, ISO_8859-8:1988) 73: ISO-8859-9 (ISO-IR-148, ISO_8859-9:1989, L5, LATIN5) 74: JIS-X-0201 (JIS_X0201, X0201, csHalfWidthKatakana) 75: JIS-X-0208 (JIS_C6226-1983, JIS_X0208-1983, X0208, csISO87JISX0208, iso-ir-87) 76: JIS-X-0212 77: JOHAB 78: KSC5601-1992 79: KSCX-1001 80: MS-CYRILLIC 81: MS-GREEK 82: MS-ICELAND 83: MS-LATIN2 84: MS-ROMAN 85: MS-TURKISH 86: NEXT (NEXTSTEP, NeXT) 87: Shift-JIS 88: US-ASCII (ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ASCII, IBM367, ISO646-US, ISO_646.irv:1991, cp367, csASCII, iso-ir-6, us)