Unicode::UTF8simple(3)

Unicode::UTF8simple3

Conversions to/from utf8 from/to charactersets

Usage

 use Unicode::UTF8simple;
 
 my $uref = new Unicode::UTF8simple;
 #convert a string (here: schön) to a utf8 byte string 
 my $utf8string=$uref->toUTF8("iso-8859-1","schön");
 #convert a string from utf-8 to specified encoding
 my $string=$uref->fromUTF8("iso-8859-1",$utf8string);
 #get a lit of supported encodings:
 my @listOfNames=$uref->enclist();
 #check if a given encoding (here gb2312) is supported
 if ($uref->encsup('gb2312')){ ... }

Overview

Provides UTF-8 conversion for perl versions from 5.00 and up. It was mainly written for use with perl 5.00 to 5.6.0 because those perl versions do not support Unicode::MapUTF8 or Encode.

Unicode::UTF8simple is written in plain perl (no C code) and will work with any Perl 5 version. It is just slightly slower than Encode.

Pod errors

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

Around line 40:

Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'schön)'. Assuming CP1252

Author

Guido Socher (guido at linuxfocus.org)

From perl-unicode-utf8simple 1.06-9 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.