NAME

IETF::ACE - Perl extension for IETF IDN WG ACE character conversions

SYNOPSIS

  use IETF::ACE qw / ... /;

DESCRIPTION

IETF::ACE - Perl extension for IETF IDN WG ACE character conversions

  Subroutines

  UCS4toName
  UCS4toUPlus
  UTF5toUCS4
  GetCharFromUTF5
  UCS4toRACE
  RACEtoUCS4
  UCS4toLACE
  LACEtoUCS4
  Base32Encode
  Base32Decode
  CheckForSTD13Name
  CheckForBadSurrogates
  HexOut
  DebugOn
  DebugOff
  DebugOut

  The formats are:

  utf8
  utf16
  ucs4
  utf5      from draft-jseng-utf5-01.txt
  race      draft-ietf-idn-race-03.txt
  lace      draft-ietf-idn-lace-01.txt
  name      The character names; output only
  u+        The character hex values in U+ notation; output only

Sample Program

 use strict;
 use diagnostics;

 use Unicode::String qw / utf8 /;
 use IETF::ACE qw / &UCS4toRACE /;

 my $TheIn="ábcde"; # .com

 my $TheUCS4 = utf8($TheIn)->ucs4;

 my $TheOut = &UCS4toRACE($TheUCS4);

 print <<EOD;
 Latin1 Input = $TheIn.com
 RACE Output = $TheOut.com
 EOD

EXPORT

None by default.

AUTHOR

Paul Hoffman, Internet Mail Consortium phoffman@mail.imc.org

James Briggs, ActiveMessage, Inc. james@rf.net

SEE ALSO

the perl manpage.