NAME

URI::Find::UTF8 - Finds URI from arbitrary text containing UTF8 raw characters in its path

SYNOPSIS

use utf8;
use URI::Find::UTF8;

# Since this code has "use utf8", $text is UTF-8 flagged
my $text = <<TEXT;
Japanese Wikipedia home page is http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メインページ
TEXT

my $finder = URI::Find::UTF8->new(\&callback);
$finder->find(\$text);

sub callback {
    my($uri, $orig) = @_;

    # $uri is an URI object that represents
    #   "http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8"
    # $orig is a string
    #   "http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メインページ"
}

DESCRIPTION

URI::Find::UTF8 is an URI::Find extension to find URIs from arbitrary chunk of text that has UTF8 raw characters in its path (instead of URI escaped %XX%XX%XX form).

This often happens when Safari users paste an URL to IM or IRC window, because Safari displays decoded URL path in its location bar, such as:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メインページ

This module tries to extract URLs like this (in addition to normal URLs that URI::Find can find) and give you an encoded URL (URI object) and the raw, unencoded string.

This module passes URI::Find's own test file (besides the old find_uris call), so this can be used as a drop-in replacement for the module.

Note that this module doesn't (yet) handle International Domain Names.

AUTHOR

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

URI::Find