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+Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, with full Unicode
+support.
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+
+ These requirements only apply if you are installing the perl version.
+ We also provide PAR::Packer generated binaries for most common OSes.
+
+ Biber is written in Perl. Version 5.12 is recommended if you are running
+ the perl source version as it has the best Unicode implementation of any
+ Perl version so far.
+
+ In addition Biber requires a number of CPAN modules, which if missing
+ should be automatically installed during the install process described
+ below.
+
+ * Unicode::Collate 0.72 or higher
+ * IPC::Cmd and IPC::Run
+ * File::Slurp::Unicode
+ * Readonly (but Readonly::XS is highly recommended for performance reasons)
+ * List::AllUtils
+ * Log::Log4perl
+ * XML::LibXML::Simple (XML::LibXML clone of XML::Simple)
+ * Text::BibTeX 0.5.1 or higher (requires Config::AutoConf when
+ installing - please install this first.)
+ * LWP::Simple
+
+INSTALLATION
+
+ Binaries are available for most common architectures but if you wish
+ to install the perl source version, run the following commands:
+
+ perl Build.PL
+ ./Build
+ ./Build test [optional but recommended]
+ ./Build install
+
+SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
+
+ After installing, biber --help will give you the basic documentation.
+ The latest PDF documentation can be found here:
+
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/documentation/
+
+ Biber also comes with the utility script latex2utf8 to convert files with
+ LaTeX encoding to UTF-8.
+
+ You can also find documentation for the included modules with the perldoc command:
+
+ perldoc Biber
+ perldoc LaTeX::Decode
+ etc.
+
+ More information, bugfix releases, forums and bug tracker are available at:
+
+ http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net
+
+BUGS
+
+ Please report any bugs or feature requests on our sourceforge tracker at
+ https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=browse&group_id=228270
+
+
+==========================
+
+COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
+
+ Copyright (C) 2009–2011 François Charette and Philip Kime
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of either:
+
+ * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
+ later version, or
+
+ * the Artistic License version 2.0.
+
+==========================