NAME Windows1252 - Source code filter to escape Windows-1252 script SYNOPSIS use Windows1252; # usage for application programmers DESCRIPTION The Windows1252 software provides character oriented Perl scripting environment in Windows-1252 by easy installation and easy usage. - Character oriented regular expression - Character oriented run-time routines - Character oriented subroutines and - Byte oriented CORE::* functions - Byte oriented regular expression on /b modifier Information processing model beginning with Perl3 or this software. +--------------------------------------------+ | Text strings as Binary strings | | Binary strings as Text strings | +--------------------------------------------+ | Not UTF8 Flagged, UNIX/C-ism | +--------------------------------------------+ Script could be written in native encoding of operating systems. - Like contents of a file - Like a file name on the file systems - Like command lines - Like environment variables - Like parameters of API In UNIX Everything is a File - In UNIX everything is a stream of bytes - In UNIX the filesystem is used as a universal name space INSTALLATION Just copy Windows1252.pm and Ewindows1252.pm to your @INC directory. For example, to C:\Perl\site\lib SUBROUTINES Windows1252::length(charstring) Windows1252::substr(charstring, charpos, charlen) and more... SEE ALSO http://search.cpan.org/~ina/