[ANN] String::Multibyte 1.03 released

Hello, i18n/l10n people.

I've released String::Multibyte v1.03.

This module provides some methods to manipulate
multiple-byte encoded string without Perl's Unicode support.
I.e. it can also run with Perl 5.003 or 5.005.

Newly the following Chinese and Korean encodings are supported.

  Big5, Big5Plus, EUC-TW, GB18030, GBK, Johab, and UHC.

(Already UTF-8, UTF16-BE, UTF16-LE, EUC-(CN|KR), EUC-JP,
 and Shift-JIS have been supported.)

Here is an example:

#!perl
use String::Multibyte;

$gb18030 = String::Multibyte->new('GB18030');

$gb18030_len = $gb18030->length(
    "\xF7\xA1\x41\x98\x37\xA5\x37\x81\x40\x89\x32\xF9\x30");

print "$gb18030_len\n";
# you'll get 5.

$gb18030_sub = $gb18030->substr(
    "\xF7\xA1\x41\x98\x37\xA5\x37\x81\x40\x89\x32\xF9\x30",
        2, -1);
print $gb18030_sub;
# you'll get "\x98\x37\xA5\x37\x81\x40".

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Though it will become available from CPAN soon,
it is available now from my website:

tarball
  http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/perl/String-Multibyte-1.03.tar.gz

HTML-ized POD (in UTF-8)
  http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/perl/String-Multibyte.html

Regards,
SADAHIRO Tomoyuki  SADAHIRO(_at_)cpan(_dot_)org