NAME

Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 - Shortcut to use Locale::TextDomain and decoding to UTF8

VERSION

This document describes version 0.020 of Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 (from Perl distribution Locale-TextDomain-UTF8), released on 2019-12-26.

SYNOPSIS

Instead of:

 use Locale::TextDomain 'Some-TextDomain';

you now say:

 use Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 'Some-TextDomain';

DESCRIPTION

 use Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 'Some-TextDomain'

is equivalent to:

 use Locale::TextDomain 'Some-TextDomain';
 use Locale::Messages qw(bind_textdomain_filter);
 use Encode;
 BEGIN {
     $ENV{OUTPUT_CHARSET} = 'UTF-8';
     bind_textdomain_filter 'Some-TextDomain' => \&Encode::decode_utf8;
 }

it's just more convenient, especially if you have to do it for each textdomain.

Why would you want this? To ensure that strings returned by the __(), et al functions are UTF8-encoded Perl strings. For example, if you want to pass the strings to Unicode::GCString. For more details, see the Perl Advent article mentioned in the SEE ALSO section.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Locale-TextDomain-UTF8.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Locale-TextDomain-UTF8.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Locale-TextDomain-UTF8

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Locale::TextDomain::UTF8::IfEnv

Locale::TextDomain

Locale::Messages

http://www.perladvent.org/2013/2013-12-09.html

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019, 2013 by perlancar@cpan.org.

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