Source: libunicode-maputf8-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Daniel Ruoso , Niko Tyni , gregor herrmann Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Unicode-MapUTF8 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libunicode-maputf8-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libunicode-maputf8-perl.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), libmodule-build-perl Build-Depends-Indep: libjcode-pm-perl, libtest-pod-coverage-perl, libtest-pod-perl, libunicode-map-perl, libunicode-map8-perl, libunicode-string-perl, perl Package: libunicode-maputf8-perl Architecture: all Depends: libjcode-pm-perl, libunicode-map-perl, libunicode-map8-perl, libunicode-string-perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: Perl module for converting between any character sets and UTF8 Unicode::MapUTF8 provides an adapter layer between core routines for converting to and from UTF8 and other encodings. In essence, a way to give multiple existing Unicode modules a single common interface so you don't have to know the underlying implementations to do simple UTF8 to-from other character set encoding conversions. As such, it wraps the Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8, Unicode::Map and Jcode modules in a standardized and simple API. . This also provides general character set conversion operation based on UTF8 - it is possible to convert between any two compatible and supported character sets via a simple two step chaining of conversions. . As with most things Perlish - if you give it a few big chunks of text to chew on instead of lots of small ones it will handle many more characters per second. . By design, it can be easily extended to encompass any new charset encoding conversion modules that arrive on the scene.