1package Encode::TW; 2BEGIN { 3 if (ord("A") == 193) { 4 die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n"; 5 } 6} 7our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.26 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; 8 9use Encode; 10use XSLoader; 11XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__,$VERSION); 12 131; 14__END__ 15 16=head1 NAME 17 18Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings 19 20=head1 SYNOPSIS 21 22 use Encode qw/encode decode/; 23 $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly 24 $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto 25 26=head1 DESCRIPTION 27 28This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used 29in Taiwan and Hong Kong. 30Encodings supported are as follows. 31 32 Canonical Alias Description 33 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions) 35 /\bbig5-?et(en)?$/i 36 /\btca-?big5$/i 37 big5-hkscs /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i 38 /\bhk(scs)?-?big5$/i 39 Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong 40 MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings 41 cp950 Code Page 950 42 = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 44 45To find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>. 46 47=head1 NOTES 48 49Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character), C<CCCII> 50(Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), C<BIG5PLUS> 51(CMEX's Big5+) and C<BIG5EXT> (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately 52on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains 53extra China-based encodings. 54 55=head1 BUGS 56 57Since the original C<big5> encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere 58(glibc and DOS-based systems uses C<big5> to mean C<big5-eten>; Microsoft 59uses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias 60C<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original 61big5. 62 63The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643> 64manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains 65planes 1-7. 66 67The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even 68though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See 69 70L<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en> 71 72to find out why it is implemented that way. 73 74=head1 SEE ALSO 75 76L<Encode> 77 78=cut 79