Unicode-UTF8-0.66

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Unicode-UTF8-0.66

Changes for version 0.66 - 2026-02-25

Rewrote the UTF-8 validator using a shift-based DFA from https://github.com/chansen/c-utf8-valid by the same author. Benchmarks show up to 10x faster decoding compared to Encode.pm, see benchmarks/ in the repository for details.

Encoding and decoding of UTF-8 encoding form

To install Unicode::UTF8, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm Unicode::UTF8

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Unicode::UTF8

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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