To convert Chinese document written in UTF-8 encoding into text in gb2312 encoding, here is a sample Perl code using the module Encode::HanConvert and Encode::HanExtra:

I tried to install something via CPAN, but kept getting this error. Even "perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN'" gave such error:

Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar:
Couldn't untar /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar

It wasn't permission, because I was running from root. Maybe the memory. Since this is a OpenVZ container, we would check the /proc/user_beancounters

# cat /proc/user_beancounters

We were not able to install the CPAN module Net::Packet. The error messages indicated that it could not find Net::Libdnet module.

Next, we tried to install Net::Libdnet, but got the error "Libdnet.xs:37:18: error: dnet.h: No such file or directory". That means, we are missing a libdnet.

So, we installed libdnet through yum (from "epel" repos):

# yum install libdnet libdnet-devel

("epel" repos is the Fedora extra package repos).

This discussion http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=108244 explains nicely that we need to do shutdown and close after we are done with a socket:

shutdown on a socket is similar to close on a pipe in what information it gives to the program on the other side. But it does not close the file handle.

I tried to install this module WWW::Curl via cpan, but failed on both Centos 4 and Centos 5. Instead of digging for the fix, I just enabled rpmforge repository, and installed through yum:

# yum install perl-WWW-Curl

LWP Cookbook has the example on how to use proxy for HTTP request.

Here are some more examples:

• connect-tunnel (in CPAN)
• ddos_accept.pl (in apache.org)

To connect to an HTTP proxy using LWP, here is what you do:

Here are some discussion and informaton on Perl thread programming:

• Things you need to know before programming Perl ithreads
• Re: perl ithread issue 
• perlthrtut
• Thread.pm (in CPAN)

I used to use h2xs to start my Perl extension modules. Now I am testing Module::Starter.

Before we start, here are some modules to install

If you have a Drupal website in Simplified Chinese, and now you want to to convert it into Traditional Chinese, or the other way around, here is how you can do it:

If you don't have permission to install a Perl module into the system Perl directories, you will not be able to use CPAN or yum or atp-get etc to install the module. You have to manually install it. Here are the steps:

1. Download the module's package from search.cpan.org
2. Install the package:
   

   $ tar zxf module-name.tgz
   $ cd module-name
   $ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/your-custom-dir
   $ make
   $ make test
   $ make install