String::Multibyte.pm version 0.05
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String::Multibyte - Perl module to manipulate multibyte character strings.

SYNOPSIS

  use String::Multibyte
  $sjis = String::Multibyte->new('ShiftJIS');
  $sjis_len = $sjis->length($sjis_str);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides some functions which emulate
the corresponding CORE functions
to manipulate multiple-byte character strings.

This module uses the OOP syntax to tell methods
in which charset the specified strings should be handled.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright(C) 2001, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki. Japan. All rights reserved.

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