NAME App::japerl - JPerl-again Perl glocalization scripting environment SYNOPSIS $ japerl [switches] [--] MBCS_script.pl [arguments] DESCRIPTION japerl.bat is a wrapper for the mb.pm modulino. This software assists in the execution of Perl scripts written in MBCS encoding. It differs in function and purpose from jacode.pl, which has a similar name and is often misunderstood. jacode.pl is mainly used to convert I/O data encoding. On the other hand, mb.pm modulino handles script you wrote, and it does not convert its encoding. software <> software purpose ----------------------+--------------------------------------- jcode.pl jacode.pl | to convert encoding of data for I/O ----------------------+--------------------------------------- jperl japerl.bat | to execute native encoding scripts | (NEVER convert script encoding) ----------------------+--------------------------------------- This software can do the following. - choose one perl interpreter in system - select local use libraries - execute script written in system native encoding How to find mb.pm modulino ? Running japerl.bat requires mb.pm modulino. japerl.bat finds for mb.pm modulino in the following order and uses the first mb.pm found. 1. @PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT 2. $FindBin::Bin 3. $FindBin::Bin/lib 4. @INC SUPPORTED PERL VERSIONS perl version 5.005_03 to newest perl SEE ALSO https://metacpan.org/author/INA http://backpan.cpantesters.org/authors/id/I/IN/INA/ https://metacpan.org/dist/mb https://metacpan.org/dist/mb-Encode https://metacpan.org/dist/UTF8-R2 https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl7-Handy https://metacpan.org/dist/Jacode4e-RoundTrip https://metacpan.org/dist/Jacode4e https://metacpan.org/dist/Jacode