NAME Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 - Shortcut to use Locale::TextDomain and decoding to UTF8 VERSION This document describes version 0.020 of Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 (from Perl distribution Locale-TextDomain-UTF8), released on 2019-12-26. SYNOPSIS Instead of: use Locale::TextDomain 'Some-TextDomain'; you now say: use Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 'Some-TextDomain'; DESCRIPTION use Locale::TextDomain::UTF8 'Some-TextDomain' is equivalent to: use Locale::TextDomain 'Some-TextDomain'; use Locale::Messages qw(bind_textdomain_filter); use Encode; BEGIN { $ENV{OUTPUT_CHARSET} = 'UTF-8'; bind_textdomain_filter 'Some-TextDomain' => \&Encode::decode_utf8; } it's just more convenient, especially if you have to do it for each textdomain. Why would you want this? To ensure that strings returned by the "__()", et al functions are UTF8-encoded Perl strings. For example, if you want to pass the strings to Unicode::GCString. For more details, see the Perl Advent article mentioned in the SEE ALSO section. HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. SEE ALSO Locale::TextDomain::UTF8::IfEnv Locale::TextDomain Locale::Messages AUTHOR perlancar COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2019, 2013 by perlancar@cpan.org. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.