Jcode.pm is a Perl module that handles various Japanese charsets. It has all features available on jcode.pl-2.10 PLUS - Object-oriented approach on Japanese text handling - mime header handling - Unicode feature (UCS2 and UTF8) As of Perl 5.8.0, all the Jcode capabilities are available in the standard distribution via the Encode module. As of Jcode 2.0, Jcode now acts as a wrapper to Encode for perl 5.8.1 and better.