NAME

Unicode::CheckUTF8 - checks if scalar is valid UTF-8

SYNOPSIS

   use Unicode::CheckUTF8 qw(is_utf8);
   my $is_ok = is_utf8($scalar);

DESCRIPTION

This is an XS wrapper around some Unicode Consortium code to check if a string is valid UTF-8, revised to conform to what expat/Mozilla think is valid UTF-8, especially with regard to low-ASCII characters.

Note that this module has NOTHING to do with Perl's internal UTF8 flag on scalars.

This module is for use when you're getting input from users and want to make sure it's valid UTF-8 before continuing.

HISTORY

This is some old code, dating back to before Perl 5.8 and before Unicode support in Perl. I wish I didn't have to keep using this code, but I can't find any other code on CPAN for UTF-8 checking that's both sufficiently fast and more importantly, correct. So now there's yet another way to do it.

BUGS

Hopefully not, but mail me if so!

AUTHOR

Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>, based on Unicode Consortium code.

Artur Bergman, helping me kill old Inline code using his awesome knowledge of all things Perl and XS.