NAME

Unicode::CheckUTF8::PP - Pure Perl implementation of Unicode::CheckUTF8

VERSION

version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

use Unicode::CheckUTF8::PP qw(is_utf8);
my $is_ok = is_utf8($scalar);

DESCRIPTION

Pure Perl implementation of Unicode::CheckUTF8, almost all logic was directly ported from that module. The target audience of this module are users who would like the functionality of Unicode::CheckUTF8, but don't have access to a C compiler or lack permissions to compile on their systems (for whatever reason)

METHODS

is_utf8

Determines whether a Perl scalar is a UTF8 compliant string

returns 1 if the supplied string is UTF8 compliant 
returns 0 otherwise

AUTHOR

Based entirely on Unicode::CheckUTF8, written by Brad Fitzpatrick

AUTHOR

Hunter McMillen <mcmillhj@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Hunter McMillen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.