NAME
       Encode - character encodings

SYNOPSIS
           use Encode;

DESCRIPTION
       The "Encode" module provides the interfaces between Perl's
       strings and the rest of the system.  Perl strings are
       sequences of characters.

       See "perldoc Encode" for the rest of the story

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

To install scripts under bin/ directories also,

   perl Makefile.PL MORE_SCRIPTS
   make && make test && make install

by default, only enc2xs and piconv are installed.

To install *.ucm files also, say

   perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_UCM
   make && make test && make install

by default, *.ucm are not installed.

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires perl5.7.3 or later.

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions "perldoc Encode" does not answer, please
feel free to ask at perl-unicode@perl.org.