=head1 NAME

jperl - Japanized Perl.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Jperl is a variation of L<perl> that recognizes 16-bit Japanese characters.
It supports Japanese EUC and Shift JIS(aka MS Kanji code).

Currently, it understands Japanese in the following circumstances.

=over 5

=item * Regular Expression

 '.' matches either 1-byte ASCII character or 2-byte Japanese character.
Character class notation('[X-Y]', '[^X-Y]') recognizes a
Japanese letter as a character.

=item * tr

Similarly, tr recognizes a Japanese letter as a letter.

=item * split

Similar.

=item * formats

It doesn't cut 2-byte letter at the middle when linebreaking.

=item * chop

It understands 2-byte letters.

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=head1 ADDITIONAL COMMAND LINE ARGUMENT

=over 5

=item B<-b>

turns off Japanese mode. This is supported only in Japanized perl.
Without this option, most 8-bit characters are interpreted to be
composite character, and some programs that
use 8th bit for some control information(L<pod2man> is an example) won't 
work. With B<-b>, jperl will be compatible with the original perl.

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=head1 AUTHOR

Yasushi Saito

yasushi@cs.washington.edu
