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Hi,

Welcome to Unicode::Map version 0.109.

This release fixes problems with mixed byte character sets (as GB2312)
and cares for better compatibility with Unicode::Map8.


DESCRIPTION

   This module converts strings from and to 2-byte Unicode UCS2 format. 
   All mappings happen via 2 byte UTF16 encodings, not via 1 byte UTF8
   encoding. To convert between UTF8 and UTF16 use Unicode::String.

   For historical reasons this module coexists with Unicode::Map8.
   Please use Unicode::Map8 unless you need to care for &gt;1 byte character
   sets, e.g. chinese GB2312. Anyway, if you stick to the basic 
   functionality (see documentation) you can use both modules equivalently.

   Practically this module will disappear from earth sooner or later as 
   Unicode mapping support needs somehow to get into perl's core. If you 
   like to work on this field please don't hesitate contacting Gisle Aas
   and check out the mailing list perl-unicode!


REQUIRED MODULES

   No further modules are necessary.

   In former releases you needed the module Startup, but no longer. 
   You need the libwww-perl distribution to run the utility mirrorMappings.


This module resides on your favorite CPAN mirror or at: 

    http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/perl/


Contact: Martin Schwartz &lt;martin@nacho.de&gt;


Character sets available:

01: ADOBE-DINGBATS
02: ADOBE-STANDARD (Adobe-Standard-Encoding, csAdobeStandardEncoding)
03: ADOBE-SYMBOL (csHPPSMath)
04: APPLE-ARABIC
05: APPLE-CENTEURO
06: APPLE-CHINSIMP
07: APPLE-CHINTRAD
08: APPLE-CROATIAN
09: APPLE-CYRILLIC (APPLE-UKRAINE)
10: APPLE-DEVANAGA
11: APPLE-DINGBATS
12: APPLE-GREEK
13: APPLE-GUJARATI
14: APPLE-GURMUKHI
15: APPLE-HEBREW
16: APPLE-ICELAND
17: APPLE-JAPANESE
18: APPLE-KOREAN
19: APPLE-ROMAN
20: APPLE-ROMANIAN
21: APPLE-SYMBOL
22: APPLE-THAI
23: APPLE-TURKISH
24: BIG5
25: CNS-11643-1986
26: CP037 (IBM037, csIBM037, ebcdic-cp-ca, ebcdic-cp-nl, ebcdic-cp-us, ebcdic-cp-wt)
27: CP1026 (IBM1026, csIBM1026)
28: CP1250 (windows-1250)
29: CP1251 (windows-1251)
30: CP1252 (windows-1252)
31: CP1253 (windows-1253)
32: CP1254 (windows-1254)
33: CP1255 (windows-1255)
34: CP1256 (windows-1256)
35: CP1257 (windows-1257)
36: CP1258 (windows-1258)
37: CP437 (437, IBM437, csPC8CodePage437)
38: CP500 (IBM500, csIBM500, ebcdic-cp-be, ebcdic-cp-ch)
39: CP737
40: CP775 (IBM775, csPC775Baltic)
41: CP850 (850, IBM850, csPC850Multilingual)
42: CP852 (852, IBM852, csPCp852)
43: CP855 (855, IBM855, csIBM855)
44: CP857 (857, IBM857, csIBM857)
45: CP860 (860, IBM860, csIBM860)
46: CP861 (861, IBM861, cp-is, csIBM861)
47: CP862 (862, IBM862, csPC862LatinHebrew)
48: CP863 (863, IBM863, csIBM863)
49: CP864 (IBM864, csIBM864)
50: CP865 (865, IBM865, csIBM865)
51: CP866 (866, IBM866, csIBM866)
52: CP869 (869, IBM869, cp-gr, csIBM869)
53: CP874
54: CP875
55: CP932
56: CP936
57: CP949
58: CP950
59: GB12345-80
60: GB2312 (csGB2312)
61: GB2312-80 (GB_2312-80, chinese, csISO58GB231280, iso-ir-58)
62: IBM038 (CP038, EBCDIC-INT, csIBM038)
63: ISO-8859-1 (CP819, IBM819, ISO-IR-100, ISO_8859-1:1987, L1, LATIN1)
64: ISO-8859-10 (ISO-IR-157, ISO_8859-10:1993, L6, LATIN6)
65: ISO-8859-13
66: ISO-8859-14
67: ISO-8859-15
68: ISO-8859-2 (ISO-IR-101, ISO_8859-2:1987, L2, LATIN2)
69: ISO-8859-3 (ISO-IR-109, ISO_8859-3:1988, L3, LATIN3)
70: ISO-8859-4 (ISO-IR-110, ISO_8859-4:1988, L4, LATIN4)
71: ISO-8859-5 (CYRILLIC, ISO-IR-144, ISO_8859-5:1988)
72: ISO-8859-6 (ARABIC, ASMO-708, ECMA-114, ISO-IR-127, ISO_8859-6:1987)
73: ISO-8859-7 (ECMA-118, ELOT_928, GREEK, GREEK8, ISO-IR-126, ISO_8859-7:1987)
74: ISO-8859-8 (HEBREW, ISO-IR-138, ISO_8859-8:1988)
75: ISO-8859-9 (ISO-IR-148, ISO_8859-9:1989, L5, LATIN5)
76: JIS-X-0201 (JIS_X0201, X0201, csHalfWidthKatakana)
77: JIS-X-0208 (JIS_C6226-1983, JIS_X0208-1983, X0208, csISO87JISX0208, iso-ir-87)
78: JIS-X-0212
79: JOHAB
80: KSC5601-1992
81: KSCX-1001
82: MS-CYRILLIC
83: MS-GREEK
84: MS-ICELAND
85: MS-LATIN2
86: MS-ROMAN
87: MS-TURKISH
88: NEXT (NEXTSTEP, NeXT)
89: Shift-JIS
90: US-ASCII (ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ASCII, IBM367, ISO646-US, ISO_646.irv:1991, cp367, csASCII, iso-ir-6, us)
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