perl/perl-encode-locale: Added (Determine the locale encoding)

Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>

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+Perl module to determine the locale encoding.
+
+In many applications it's wise to let Perl use Unicode for the strings
+it processes. Most of the interfaces Perl has to the outside world is
+still byte based. Programs therefore needs to decode byte strings that
+enter the program from the outside and encode them again on the way out.
+The POSIX locale system is used to specify both the language conventions
+requested by the user and the preferred character set to consume and
+output. The Encode::Locale module looks up the charset and encoding
+(called a CODESET in the locale jargon) and arrange for the Encode module
+to know this encoding under the name "locale". It means bytes obtained
+from the environment can be converted to Unicode strings by calling
+Encode::encode(locale => $bytes) and converted back again with
+Encode::decode(locale => $string).
+Where file systems interfaces pass file names in and out of the program
+we also need care. The trend is for operating systems to use a fixed file
+encoding that don't actually depend on the locale; and this module
+determines the most appropriate encoding for file names. The Encode
+module will know this encoding under the name "locale_fs". For
+traditional Unix systems this will be an alias to the same encoding
+as "locale".