# $Id: README,v 1.0 2006/01/06 19:08 $

String::SetUTF8 lets you directly set or unset the UTF-8 flag for your strings. Sometimes you get binary data that Perl doesn't treat as UTF-8, so instead of doing a trick with pack and unpack you can just use this module.

String::SetUTF8 may be installed through the CPAN shell in the usual manner. Typically:

$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install String::SetUTF8'

You can also read this README from the CPAN shell:

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> readme String::SetUTF8

And you can install the component from the CPAN prompt as well:

cpan> install String::SetUTF8

This module may also be installed manually. Its distribution is available from the author's CPAN directory, <ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AA/AAR/>, or a similarly named directory at your favorite CPAN mirror.

Downloading and unpacking the distribution are left as exercises for the reader. To build and test it:

perl Makefile.PL
make test

When you're ready to install the component:

make install

It should now be ready to use.

Thanks for reading!

-- Alessandro Ranellucci / aar@cpan.org / http://alex.primafila.net