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+These are experimental modules to handle various Unicode issues.
+They were made before perl included native UTF8 support.
+
+The current set of modules are:
+
+ Unicode::String - represent strings of Unicode chars
+ Unicode::CharName - look up character names
+ Unicode::Map8 - mapping tables towards 8-bit char sets
+
+(the Unicode::Map8 module is distributed separately)