NAME¶

PerlIO::locale - PerlIO layer to use the encoding of the current locale

VERSION¶

0.07

SYNOPSIS¶

    use PerlIO::locale;
    open my $filehandle, '<:locale', $filename or die $!;

DESCRIPTION¶

This is mostly a per-filehandle version of the "open" pragma, when used under the form

    use open ':locale';

The encoding for the opened file will be set to the encoding corresponding to the locale currently in effect, if perl can guess it.

AUTHOR¶

Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>, rewritten by Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>

LICENSE¶

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

SOURCE¶

A git repository for the sources is at <https://github.com/rgs/PerlIO-locale>.

SEE ALSO¶

• open
• PerlIO::encoding
• I18N::Langinfo