JPERL(1)

NAME
jperl - Japanized Perl.

DESCRIPTION
Jperl is a variation of the perl manpage 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.

• 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.

• tr
    Similarly, tr recognizes a Japanese letter as a letter.

• split
    Similar.

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

• chop
    It understands 2-byte letters.

ADDITIONAL COMMAND LINE ARGUMENT

-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(the pod2man manpage is an example) won't work. With -b, jperl will be compatible with the original perl.

AUTHOR
Yasushi Saito

yasushi@cs.washington.edu