NAME Unicode::Util - Unicode-aware versions of built-in Perl functions VERSION This document describes Unicode::Util version 0.01. SYNOPSIS use Unicode::Util; # grapheme cluster: Cyrillic small letter yu + combining acute accent my $grapheme = "\x{44E}\x{301}"; say graph_length($grapheme); # 1 say code_length($grapheme); # 2 say byte_length($grapheme); # 4 DESCRIPTION This module provides additional versions of Perl's built-in functions, tailored to work on three different units: Unicode extended grapheme clusters (graphemes) Unicode code points bytes (octets) This is an early release and this module is likely to have major revisions. Only the "length" functions are currently implemented. See the "TODO" section for planned future additions. FUNCTIONS graph_length($string) Returns the length in graphemes of the given string. This is likely the number of "characters" that many people would count on a printed string, plus non-printing characters. code_length($string) Returns the length in code points of the given string. This is likely the number of "characters" that many programmers and programming languages would count in a string. byte_length($string) Returns the length in bytes of the given string encoded as UTF-8. This is the number of bytes that many computers would count when storing a string. TODO graph_reverse graph_chop graph_split graph_substr code_substr byte_substr graph_index code_index byte_index graph_rindex code_rindex byte_rindex SEE ALSO The "length" functions are based on methods provided by Perl6::Str. AUTHOR Nick Patch COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE © 2011–2012 Nick Patch This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.