Bug#772548: ITP: libencoding-fixlatin-perl -- takes mixed encoding input and produces UTF-8 output

Mon Dec 8 13:58:52 UTC 2014

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

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* Package name    : libencoding-fixlatin-perl
  Version         : 1.04
  Upstream Author : Grant McLean <grantm at cpan.org>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Encoding-FixLatin
* License         : Artistic or GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : takes mixed encoding input and produces UTF-8 output

 Most encoding conversion tools take input in one encoding and produce
 output in another encoding.  Encoding::FixLatin takes input which may
 contain characters in more than one encoding and makes a best effort to
 convert them all to UTF-8 output.
 .
 For string soups containing only ASCII, ISO8859-1 and CP1252 but no
 actual UTF-8 characters (even if encoded as such), Encode::ZapCP1252
 may be better suitable.
 .
 Includes command-line tool fix_latin.

This package will be maintained in the Perl team.