NAME

 JIS8 - Source code filter to escape JIS8 script

SYNOPSIS

 use JIS8; # usage for application programmers

DESCRIPTION

 The JIS8 software provides character oriented Perl scripting
 environment in JIS8 by easy installation and easy usage.

 - Character oriented regular expression
 - Character oriented runtime routines
 - Character oriented subroutines
     and
 - Byte oriented CORE::* functions
 - Byte oriented regular expression on /b modifier

 Information processing model beginning with Perl3 or this software.

   +--------------------------------------------+
   |       Text strings as Binary strings       |
   |       Binary strings as Text strings       |
   +--------------------------------------------+
   |        Not UTF8 Flagged, UNIX/C-ism        |
   +--------------------------------------------+

 Script could be written in native encoding of operating systems.
 - Like contents of a file
 - Like a file name on the file systems
 - Like command lines
 - Like environment variables
 - Like parameters of API

 In UNIX Everything is a File
 - In UNIX everything is a stream of bytes
 - In UNIX the filesystem is used as a universal name space

INSTALLATION

 Just copy JIS8.pm and Ejis8.pm to your @INC directory.
 For example, to C:\Perl\site\lib

SUBROUTINES

 JIS8::eval(charstring)
 JIS8::length(charstring)
 JIS8::substr(charstring, charpos, charlen)
 and more...

SEE ALSO

 http://search.cpan.org/~ina/