NAME
mb - run Perl script written in MBCS
SYNOPSIS
$ perl mb.pm MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e big5 MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e big5hkscs MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e eucjp MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e gb18030 MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e gbk MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e sjis MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e uhc MBCS_Perl_script.pl
$ perl mb.pm -e utf8 MBCS_Perl_script.pl
DESCRIPTION
mb.pm is a transpiler that to translate multibyte script to US-ASCII script
and run it.
What is better than Sjis software ?
1) implemented by single file
2) supports many encodings of MBCS by only one software
3) easy to change encoding of your scripts
What is lost from Sjis software ?
1) MacOS 9 not suppoted
2) codepoint range of regexp or tr/// not supported enough
3) uc(), ucfirst(), lc(), lcfirst(), and fc() not supported
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/release/Jacode4e-RoundTrip
https://metacpan.org/release/Jacode4e
https://metacpan.org/release/Jacode