UMAP(1p)

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💫 UMAP 💫

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the Perl user-contributed legend known as umap — she maps between different character sets and she does NOT miss. 🌈✨

✨ NAME ✨

umap — map between different character sets 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

umap [options] <before>:<after>

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: umap is a filter that sits between different encodings and character sets. like a little translator fairy between worlds 🧚💜 you feed it stuff in one charset, it hands you stuff back in another one. iconic behaviour, honestly.

The following options are recognized:

  • --list [charset] — no argument? she lists every single character set she recognizes, all of them, the whole roster 👑 but if you give her a character set, she'll list the mapping between that set and Unicode. 💅
  • --strict — does the strict mapping between the character sets. the default vibe is to not translate unmapped characters, but with --stict we will remove unmapped characters or use the default you specified with --def8 or --def16. so like, no silent mystery chars, she handles them on purpose. 😤
  • --def8=<charcode> — sets the default 8-bit code for unmapped chars 🍓
  • --def16=<charcode> — sets the default 16-bit code for unmapped chars 🌸
  • --verbose — generates more verbose output. she says more. that's it. that's the option. 💬
  • --version — prints the version number of this program and then quits, like she's leaving the group chat ✌️
  • --help — prints the usage message. for when you're lost and need a bestie 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, they're the extended universe iykyk 💖

Copyright 1998 Gisle Aas.

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

bestie this is legit free software, remix it, redistribute it, just keep it under the same terms as Perl itself, periodt 💅

and that's the whole page!! this was documented for perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, brought to you by the User Contributed Perl Documentation girlies. mwah, go map some character sets 🌈💜🎀

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