JPerl

JPerl is a version of Perl that allows it to be used with Japanese character sets, it was originally a patch by Yasushi Saito for Perl 4. It was expanded by Hirofumi Watanabe who maintained a JPerl OS/2 port for a number of years that also got ported to DOS and Microsoft Windows. There was resistance from the main Perl author for almost two decades to add the JPerl changes to the main codebase but in the end some of the changes eventually got folded into Perl 5.8.0 and subsequent releases.


 * Latest JPerl version: JPerl v5.005_03-990503 (1999-06-27)


 * Author: Yasushi Saito

Links

 * JPerl 5.005_03 - Instructions on how to create a DOS JPerl from source.