utf8
utf8
NAME
utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code
SYNOPSIS
use utf8; no utf8; # Convert the internal representation of a Perl scalar to/from UTF-8. $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string); $success = utf8::downgrade($string[, $fail_ok]); # Change each character of a Perl scalar to/from a series of # characters that represent the UTF-8 bytes of each original character. utf8::encode($string); # "\x{100}" becomes "\xc4\x80" utf8::decode($string); # "\xc4\x80" becomes "\x{100}" # Convert a code point from the platform native character set to # Unicode, and v