NAME

I18N::Langinfo::Wide -- POSIX functions returning wide-char strings

SYNOPSIS

 use I18N::Langinfo 'ABMON_1';
 use I18N::Langinfo::Wide 'langinfo';
 print langinfo(ABMON_1),"\n";   # "January"

DESCRIPTION

This little module offers a wide-char langinfo, converting the locale charset bytes from I18N::Langinfo.

EXPORTS

Nothing is exported by default, but langinfo can be imported in usual Exporter style. Eg.

    use I18N::Langinfo::Wide 'langinfo';

There's no :all tag yet, as not sure if it'd be better to import just the new funcs, or everything from I18N::Langinfo too.

FUNCTIONS

$str = I18N::Langinfo::Wide::langinfo ($what)

Return a wide-char string of information for the given $what. $what is an integer, one of the constants from I18N::Langinfo like ABDAY_1.

    my $what = I18N::Langinfo::ABDAY_1();
    print I18N::Langinfo::Wide::langinfo($what);  # "Sunday"

As of I18N::Langinfo 0.02 (Perl 5.10.1), all the return values are character strings. The underlying nl_langinfo function has some byte returns like GROUPING, but they're not available through the Perl interface. The intention is that I18N::Langinfo::Wide would leave the byte ones as bytes.

$str = I18N::Langinfo::Wide::to_wide ($str)

Return $str converted to a wide-char string. If $str is a byte string then it's assumed be in the current locale charset per langinfo(CODESET). If $str is already wide chars then it's returned unchanged,

SEE ALSO

I18N::Langinfo, POSIX::Wide

utf8, for utf8::upgrade which is similar to to_wide but always takes byte input to be latin-1 or ebcdic.

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/i18n-langinfo-wide/index.html

LICENSE

I18N-Langinfo-Wide is Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010 Kevin Ryde

I18N-Langinfo-Wide is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

I18N-Langinfo-Wide is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with I18N-Langinfo-Wide. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.