Bug#772537: ITP: libencode-zapcp1252-perl -- zap Windows Western gremlin characters

Mon Dec 8 11:32:51 UTC 2014

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

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* Package name    : libencode-zapcp1252-perl
  Version         : 0.33
  Upstream Author : David E. Wheeler <david at justatheory.com>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Encode-ZapCP1252
* License         : Artistic or GPL-2
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : zap Windows Western gremlin characters

 CP1252 or "Windows Western" is a superset of Latin-1.  Accidentally
 treating such strings as either Latin-1 or UTF-8 is common, and leads
 to "gremlins" - broken misfit characters.
 .
 Encode::ZapCP1252 detects freak characters and either transliterates
 them into ASCII counterparts or translates them to UTF-8 equivalents.

This package will be maintained in the Debian Perl team.