Source: libencode-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Dominic Hargreaves , gregor herrmann , Xavier Guimard , Florian Schlichting Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libencode-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libencode-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Encode Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libencode-perl Architecture: any Multi-Arch: same Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: module providing interfaces between Perl's strings and the system The Encode module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings and the rest of the system. . When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger "logical character". . Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into ENCODING and returns a sequence of octets.