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Source: libencode-zapcp1252-perl
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: cdbs,
devscripts,
perl,
libmodule-build-perl,
debhelper,
dh-buildinfo,
libencode-perl,
libtest-pod-perl
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libencode-zapcp1252-perl
Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libencode-zapcp1252-perl.git
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Encode-ZapCP1252
Package: libencode-zapcp1252-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${cdbs:Depends},
${misc:Depends},
${perl:Depends}
Recommends: ${cdbs:Recommends}
Description: zap Windows Western gremlin characters
CP1252 (Windows Western) is a superset of ISO8859-1 (Latin-1).
Accidentally mixing CP1252 with ISO8859-1 is common, causing "gremlins"
- broken misfit characters.
.
Encode::ZapCP1252 detects freak characters and either transliterates
them into ASCII counterparts or translates them to UTF-8 equivalents.
.
Processed strings are assumed to contain a mixture of ASCII, ISO8859-1
and CP1252, but no actual UTF-8 characters (even if encoded as such).
For string soups including UTF-8 characters, Encoding::FixLatin may be
better suitable.
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