Try http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html.

Standard ASCII handles characters in the western alphabet including umlaut characters (like in German). But there are only 256 possibilities in 8 bits!. That's not enough for all languages and hence "wide characters", or 16 bit ones.

In general you will find that it is possible to make the User Interface conform to national standards. But you will find that at the low level, western languages, in particular English is the norm.

Perl is like any other computer language. You have to tell it how to interpret the byte stream - is each byte a character or is two bytes a character?

In reply to Re: Perl Modules for handling Non English text by Marshall
in thread Perl Modules for handling Non English text by paragkalra

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