Encode::Unicode::UTF7

Encode::Unicode::UTF7

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NAME

Encode::Unicode::UTF7 -- UTF-7 encoding

SYNOPSIS

use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
$utf7 = encode("UTF-7", $utf8);
$utf8 = decode("UTF-7", $ucs2);

ABSTRACT

This module implements UTF-7 encoding documented in RFC 2152. UTF-7, as its name suggests, is a 7-bit re-encoded version of UTF-16BE. It is designed to be MTA-safe and expected to be a standard way to exchange Unicoded mails via mails. But with the advent of UTF-8 and 8-bit compliant MTAs, UTF-7 is hardly ever used.

UTF-7 was not supported by Encode until version 1.95 because of that. But Unicode::String, a module by Gisle Aas which adds Un