Tuesday, March 26, 1998


This is TEC.pm 0.4, a Perl interface to the Text Encoding converter. It uses the
AppleScript Extention TEC OSAX.
The Text Encoding Converter allows you, to translate from and to different Macintosh
charsets to/from Unicode, different ISO-encodings and national encoding standards.


REQUIREMENTS:

	* The CFM-68k or PPC-Verion of MacPerl 5.1.9r4
	* The TEC Osax 1.1.1
	* Text Encoding Converter 1.2 or higher. (ships with OS8, Cyberdog, Java,etc)

The TEC OSAX can be obtained from:

	http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~iimori/sw/TECOSAX.html

Installation

- Be sure Text Encoding Converter 1.2 or higher is installed inside your System-Folder.

- Install the OSAX TEC.68K (CFM-68k Version) or TEC.PPC in your "Scripting Additions"-Folder

- Put the file TEC.pm into lib:Mac



Please let me know any errors, problems or features you would like to see.

You use this module on your own risk. I don't promise you anything. If your Harddisc
crashes, don't blame me.

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Andreas Marcel Riechert 
riechert@miyako.japanologie.kultur.uni-tuebingen.de