# NAME Text::VisualPrintf - printf family functions to handle Non-ASCII characters # SYNOPSIS use Text::VisualPrintf; Text::VisualPrintf::printf(FORMAT, LIST) Text::VisualPrintf::sprintf(FORMAT, LIST) use Text::VisualPrintf qw(vprintf vsprintf); vprintf(FORMAT, LIST) vsprintf(FORMAT, LIST) # DESCRIPTION Text::VisualPrintf is a almost-printf-compatible library with a capability of handling multi-byte wide characters properly. # FUNCTIONS - printf(FORMAT, LIST) - sprintf(FORMAT, LIST) - vprintf(FORMAT, LIST) - vsprintf(FORMAT, LIST) Use just like perl's _printf_ and _sprintf_ functions except that _printf_ does not take FILEHANDLE as a first argument. # IMPLEMENTATION NOTES Strings in the LIST which contains wide-width character are replaced before formatting, and recovered after the process. Unique replacement string contains a combination of control characters (Control-A to Control-E). If the FORMAT contains all of these two bytes combinations, the function behaves just like a standard one. # SEE ALSO [Text::VisualWidth::PP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::VisualWidth::PP) [https://github.com/kaz-utashiro/Text-VisualPrintf](https://github.com/kaz-utashiro/Text-VisualPrintf) # AUTHOR Kaz Utashiro # LICENSE Copyright (C) 2011-2017 Kaz Utashiro. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.