Source: libxml-um-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libxml-encoding-perl Standards-Version: 4.1.5 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-um-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-um-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/XML-UM Package: libxml-um-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libxml-encoding-perl Description: Perl module for converting UTF-8 strings The XML::UM module provides methods to convert UTF-8 strings to any XML encoding that XML::Encoding supports. It creates mapping routines from the .xml files that can be found in the maps/ directory in the XML::Encoding distribution. Note that the XML::Encoding distribution does install the .enc files in your perl directory, but not the.xml files they were created from. That's why you have to specify $ENCDIR as in the SYNOPSIS. . This implementation uses the XML::Encoding class to parse the .xml file and creates a hash that maps UTF-8 characters (each consisting of up to 4 bytes) to their equivalent byte sequence in the specified encoding. Note that large mappings may consume a lot of memory! . Future implementations may parse the .enc files directly, or do the conversions entirely in XS (i.e. C code).