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1NAME
2 Encode - character encodings
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4SYNOPSIS
5 use Encode;
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7DESCRIPTION
8 The "Encode" module provides the interfaces between Perl's
9 strings and the rest of the system. Perl strings are
10 sequences of characters.
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12 See "perldoc Encode" for the rest of the story
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14INSTALLATION
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16To install this module type the following:
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18 perl Makefile.PL
19 make
20 make test
21 make install
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23To install scripts under bin/ directories also,
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037b88d6 25 perl Makefile.PL MORE_SCRIPTS
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26 make
27 make test
28 make install
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30by default, only bin/enc2xs is installed.
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32DEPENDENCIES
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34This module requires perl5.7.2 or later.
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36QUESTIONS?
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38If you have any questions "perldoc Encode" does not answer, please
39feel free to ask at perl-unicode@perl.org.