Unicode::Map8 ------------- The Unicode::Map8 class implement efficient mapping tables between 8-bit character sets and 16 bit character sets like Unicode. About 170 different mapping tables between various known character sets and Unicode is distributed with this package. The source of these tables is the vendor mapping tables provided by Unicode, Inc. and the code tables in RFC 1345. New maps can easily be installed. By coincidence Martin Schwartz created a similar module at the same time I did. His module is called Unicode::Map and should be available on CPAN too. Both modules now support a unified interface. Martin's module will be depreciated in the future. Since UTF8 support is coming to Perl soon, there might be good reasons to move this module in the direction of mapping to/from UTF8. I will probably do so, once the Unicode support in the Perl core settle. COPYRIGHT 1998-1999 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.