Copyright 2010 Kevin Ryde This file is part of I18N-Langinfo-Wide. I18N-Langinfo-Wide is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. I18N-Langinfo-Wide is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with I18N-Langinfo-Wide. If not, see . This is a few lines of code for I18N::Langinfo and POSIX module functions returning and acting on Perl wide-char strings instead of locale charset bytes. It's good if you mostly use wide-char strings in a program. The replacement strftime() is particularly handy. It accepts wide chars in the format string, and converts the locale day/month names to wide chars for the return. The I18N-Langinfo-Wide home page is http://user42.tuxfamily.org/i18n-langinfo-wide/index.html