
Hi,

Welcome to Unicode::Map version 0.108.

This release fixes problems with mixed byte character sets (as GB2312)
and cares for a 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 transform these use Unicode::String.

   For historical reasons this module coexists with Unicode::Map8.
   Please use Unicode::Map8 unless you need to care for two 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!


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 <martin@nacho.de>


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

