1*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# 2*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# $Id: Encode.pm,v 1.99 2003/12/29 02:47:16 dankogai Exp dankogai $ 3*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# 4*0Sstevel@tonic-gatepackage Encode; 5*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuse strict; 6*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour $VERSION = "1.99_01"; 7*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub DEBUG () { 0 } 8*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuse XSLoader (); 9*0Sstevel@tonic-gateXSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__, $VERSION); 10*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 11*0Sstevel@tonic-gaterequire Exporter; 12*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuse base qw/Exporter/; 13*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 14*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# Public, encouraged API is exported by default 15*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 16*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour @EXPORT = qw( 17*0Sstevel@tonic-gate decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8 18*0Sstevel@tonic-gate encodings find_encoding clone_encoding 19*0Sstevel@tonic-gate); 20*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 21*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC 22*0Sstevel@tonic-gate PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF); 23*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN 24*0Sstevel@tonic-gate FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF); 25*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 26*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour @EXPORT_OK = 27*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ( 28*0Sstevel@tonic-gate qw( 29*0Sstevel@tonic-gate _utf8_off _utf8_on define_encoding from_to is_16bit is_8bit 30*0Sstevel@tonic-gate is_utf8 perlio_ok resolve_alias utf8_downgrade utf8_upgrade 31*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ), 32*0Sstevel@tonic-gate @FB_FLAGS, @FB_CONSTS, 33*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ); 34*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 35*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour %EXPORT_TAGS = 36*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ( 37*0Sstevel@tonic-gate all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ], 38*0Sstevel@tonic-gate fallbacks => [ @FB_CONSTS ], 39*0Sstevel@tonic-gate fallback_all => [ @FB_CONSTS, @FB_FLAGS ], 40*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ); 41*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 42*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S 43*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 44*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193); 45*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 46*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuse Encode::Alias; 47*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 48*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# Make a %Encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating 49*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour %Encoding; 50*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour %ExtModule; 51*0Sstevel@tonic-gaterequire Encode::Config; 52*0Sstevel@tonic-gateeval { require Encode::ConfigLocal }; 53*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 54*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub encodings 55*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 56*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $class = shift; 57*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my %enc; 58*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all"){ 59*0Sstevel@tonic-gate %enc = ( %Encoding, %ExtModule ); 60*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }else{ 61*0Sstevel@tonic-gate %enc = %Encoding; 62*0Sstevel@tonic-gate for my $mod (map {m/::/o ? $_ : "Encode::$_" } @_){ 63*0Sstevel@tonic-gate DEBUG and warn $mod; 64*0Sstevel@tonic-gate for my $enc (keys %ExtModule){ 65*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $ExtModule{$enc} eq $mod and $enc{$enc} = $mod; 66*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 67*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 68*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 69*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return 70*0Sstevel@tonic-gate sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } 71*0Sstevel@tonic-gate grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode|Guess)$/o} keys %enc; 72*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 73*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 74*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub perlio_ok{ 75*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]); 76*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok(); 77*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return 0; # safety net 78*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 79*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 80*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub define_encoding 81*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 82*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $obj = shift; 83*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $name = shift; 84*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $Encoding{$name} = $obj; 85*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $lc = lc($name); 86*0Sstevel@tonic-gate define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name; 87*0Sstevel@tonic-gate while (@_){ 88*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $alias = shift; 89*0Sstevel@tonic-gate define_alias($alias, $obj); 90*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 91*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $obj; 92*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 93*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 94*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub getEncoding 95*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 96*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($class, $name, $skip_external) = @_; 97*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 98*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ref($name) && $name->can('renew') and return $name; 99*0Sstevel@tonic-gate exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name}; 100*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $lc = lc $name; 101*0Sstevel@tonic-gate exists $Encoding{$lc} and return $Encoding{$lc}; 102*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 103*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $oc = $class->find_alias($name); 104*0Sstevel@tonic-gate defined($oc) and return $oc; 105*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $lc ne $name and $oc = $class->find_alias($lc); 106*0Sstevel@tonic-gate defined($oc) and return $oc; 107*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 108*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unless ($skip_external) 109*0Sstevel@tonic-gate { 110*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){ 111*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm'; 112*0Sstevel@tonic-gate eval{ require $mod; }; 113*0Sstevel@tonic-gate exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name}; 114*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 115*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 116*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return; 117*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 118*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 119*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub find_encoding($;$) 120*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 121*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($name, $skip_external) = @_; 122*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external); 123*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 124*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 125*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub resolve_alias($){ 126*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $obj = find_encoding(shift); 127*0Sstevel@tonic-gate defined $obj and return $obj->name; 128*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return; 129*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 130*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 131*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub clone_encoding($){ 132*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $obj = find_encoding(shift); 133*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ref $obj or return; 134*0Sstevel@tonic-gate eval { require Storable }; 135*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $@ and return; 136*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return Storable::dclone($obj); 137*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 138*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 139*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub encode($$;$) 140*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 141*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($name, $string, $check) = @_; 142*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef unless defined $string; 143*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $check ||=0; 144*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $enc = find_encoding($name); 145*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unless(defined $enc){ 146*0Sstevel@tonic-gate require Carp; 147*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'"); 148*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 149*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check); 150*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = $string if $check; 151*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $octets; 152*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 153*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 154*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub decode($$;$) 155*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 156*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_; 157*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef unless defined $octets; 158*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $check ||=0; 159*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $enc = find_encoding($name); 160*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unless(defined $enc){ 161*0Sstevel@tonic-gate require Carp; 162*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'"); 163*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 164*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check); 165*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = $octets if $check; 166*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $string; 167*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 168*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 169*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub from_to($$$;$) 170*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 171*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_; 172*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef unless defined $string; 173*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $check ||=0; 174*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $f = find_encoding($from); 175*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unless (defined $f){ 176*0Sstevel@tonic-gate require Carp; 177*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$from'"); 178*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 179*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $t = find_encoding($to); 180*0Sstevel@tonic-gate unless (defined $t){ 181*0Sstevel@tonic-gate require Carp; 182*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$to'"); 183*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 184*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check); 185*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef if ($check && length($string)); 186*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $string = $t->encode($uni,$check); 187*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef if ($check && length($uni)); 188*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ; 189*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 190*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 191*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub encode_utf8($) 192*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 193*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($str) = @_; 194*0Sstevel@tonic-gate utf8::encode($str); 195*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $str; 196*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 197*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 198*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub decode_utf8($;$) 199*0Sstevel@tonic-gate{ 200*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($str, $check) = @_; 201*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if ($check){ 202*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return decode("utf8", $str, $check); 203*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }else{ 204*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef unless utf8::decode($str); 205*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $str; 206*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 207*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 208*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 209*0Sstevel@tonic-gatepredefine_encodings(1); 210*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 211*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# 212*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed; 213*0Sstevel@tonic-gate# 214*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 215*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesub predefine_encodings{ 216*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode::Encoding; 217*0Sstevel@tonic-gate no warnings 'redefine'; 218*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $use_xs = shift; 219*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if ($ON_EBCDIC) { 220*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC 221*0Sstevel@tonic-gate package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC; 222*0Sstevel@tonic-gate push @Encode::UTF_EBCDIC::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding'; 223*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *decode = sub{ 224*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; 225*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $res = ''; 226*0Sstevel@tonic-gate for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) { 227*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $res .= 228*0Sstevel@tonic-gate chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1)))); 229*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 230*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = '' if $chk; 231*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $res; 232*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }; 233*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *encode = sub{ 234*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; 235*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $res = ''; 236*0Sstevel@tonic-gate for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) { 237*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $res .= 238*0Sstevel@tonic-gate chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1)))); 239*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 240*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = '' if $chk; 241*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $res; 242*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }; 243*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} = 244*0Sstevel@tonic-gate bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC"; 245*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } else { 246*0Sstevel@tonic-gate package Encode::Internal; 247*0Sstevel@tonic-gate push @Encode::Internal::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding'; 248*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *decode = sub{ 249*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; 250*0Sstevel@tonic-gate utf8::upgrade($str); 251*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = '' if $chk; 252*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $str; 253*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }; 254*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *encode = \&decode; 255*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} = 256*0Sstevel@tonic-gate bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal"; 257*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 258*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 259*0Sstevel@tonic-gate { 260*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # was in Encode::utf8 261*0Sstevel@tonic-gate package Encode::utf8; 262*0Sstevel@tonic-gate push @Encode::utf8::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding'; 263*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # 264*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if ($use_xs){ 265*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS on"; 266*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *decode = \&decode_xs; 267*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *encode = \&encode_xs; 268*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }else{ 269*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS off"; 270*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *decode = sub{ 271*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_; 272*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets); 273*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if (defined $str) { 274*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = '' if $chk; 275*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $str; 276*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 277*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return undef; 278*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }; 279*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *encode = sub { 280*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_; 281*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string); 282*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $_[1] = '' if $chk; 283*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return $octets; 284*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }; 285*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 286*0Sstevel@tonic-gate *cat_decode = sub{ # ($obj, $dst, $src, $pos, $trm, $chk) 287*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($obj, undef, undef, $pos, $trm) = @_; # currently ignores $chk 288*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my ($rdst, $rsrc, $rpos) = \@_[1,2,3]; 289*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use bytes; 290*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if ((my $npos = index($$rsrc, $trm, $pos)) >= 0) { 291*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos, $npos - $pos + length($trm)); 292*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $$rpos = $npos + length($trm); 293*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return 1; 294*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 295*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos); 296*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $$rpos = length($$rsrc); 297*0Sstevel@tonic-gate return ''; 298*0Sstevel@tonic-gate }; 299*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $Encode::Encoding{utf8} = 300*0Sstevel@tonic-gate bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8"; 301*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 302*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 303*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 304*0Sstevel@tonic-gate1; 305*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 306*0Sstevel@tonic-gate__END__ 307*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 308*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 NAME 309*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 310*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEncode - character encodings 311*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 312*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 SYNOPSIS 313*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 314*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode; 315*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 316*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head2 Table of Contents 317*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 318*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEncode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big 319*0Sstevel@tonic-gateto fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs 320*0Sstevel@tonic-gateand general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details, 321*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesee the PODs below: 322*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 323*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Name Description 324*0Sstevel@tonic-gate -------------------------------------------------------- 325*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings 326*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class 327*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings 328*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings 329*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::JP Japanese Encodings 330*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::KR Korean Encodings 331*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings 332*0Sstevel@tonic-gate -------------------------------------------------------- 333*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 334*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 DESCRIPTION 335*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 336*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings 337*0Sstevel@tonic-gateand the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of 338*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<characters>. 339*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 340*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that 341*0Sstevel@tonic-gatedefined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal 342*0Sstevel@tonic-gatevalues of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode 343*0Sstevel@tonic-gatecodepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where 344*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethe legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set 345*0Sstevel@tonic-gateof ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>). 346*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 347*0Sstevel@tonic-gateTraditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks 348*0Sstevel@tonic-gateoften called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in 349*0Sstevel@tonic-gatenetworking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many 350*0Sstevel@tonic-gatetypes - not only strings of characters representing human or computer 351*0Sstevel@tonic-gatelanguages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of 352*0Sstevel@tonic-gatenumbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything. 353*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 354*0Sstevel@tonic-gateWhen Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to 355*0Sstevel@tonic-gateprocess "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a 356*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebyte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger 357*0Sstevel@tonic-gate"logical character". 358*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 359*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head2 TERMINOLOGY 360*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 361*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=over 2 362*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 363*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item * 364*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 365*0Sstevel@tonic-gateI<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more). 366*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(What Perl's strings are made of.) 367*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 368*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item * 369*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 370*0Sstevel@tonic-gateI<byte>: a character in the range 0..255 371*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(A special case of a Perl character.) 372*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 373*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item * 374*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 375*0Sstevel@tonic-gateI<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255 376*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.) 377*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 378*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=back 379*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 380*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 PERL ENCODING API 381*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 382*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=over 2 383*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 384*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK]) 385*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 386*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEncodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns 387*0Sstevel@tonic-gatea sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or 388*0Sstevel@tonic-gatean alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. 389*0Sstevel@tonic-gateFor CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">. 390*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 391*0Sstevel@tonic-gateFor example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to 392*0Sstevel@tonic-gateiso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1), 393*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 394*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string); 395*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 396*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets 397*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag 398*0Sstevel@tonic-gatefor $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of 399*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethe result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8 400*0Sstevel@tonic-gatestring. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below. 401*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 402*0Sstevel@tonic-gateencode($valid_encoding, undef) is harmless but warns you for 403*0Sstevel@tonic-gateC<Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry>. 404*0Sstevel@tonic-gateencode($valid_encoding, '') is harmless and warnless. 405*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 406*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK]) 407*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 408*0Sstevel@tonic-gateDecodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's 409*0Sstevel@tonic-gateinternal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(), 410*0Sstevel@tonic-gateENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names 411*0Sstevel@tonic-gateand aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see 412*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL</"Handling Malformed Data">. 413*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 414*0Sstevel@tonic-gateFor example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format: 415*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 416*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets); 417*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 418*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string 419*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data, 420*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethe utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of 421*0Sstevel@tonic-gateASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> 422*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebelow. 423*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 424*0Sstevel@tonic-gatedecode($valid_encoding, undef) is harmless but warns you for 425*0Sstevel@tonic-gateC<Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry>. 426*0Sstevel@tonic-gatedecode($valid_encoding, '') is harmless and warnless. 427*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 428*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK]) 429*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 430*0Sstevel@tonic-gateConverts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets 431*0Sstevel@tonic-gatemust be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal 432*0Sstevel@tonic-gateformat. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250 encoding: 433*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 434*0Sstevel@tonic-gate from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250"); 435*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 436*0Sstevel@tonic-gateand to convert it back: 437*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 438*0Sstevel@tonic-gate from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1"); 439*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 440*0Sstevel@tonic-gateNote that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be 441*0Sstevel@tonic-gateconverted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable. 442*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 443*0Sstevel@tonic-gatefrom_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on success, undef 444*0Sstevel@tonic-gateotherwise. 445*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 446*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so; 447*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 448*0Sstevel@tonic-gate from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1 449*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2 450*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 451*0Sstevel@tonic-gateBoth #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string 452*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebut only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to 453*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 454*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data)); 455*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 456*0Sstevel@tonic-gateSee L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below. 457*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 458*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item $octets = encode_utf8($string); 459*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 460*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEquivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters 461*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethat comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the 462*0Sstevel@tonic-gateresult is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible 463*0Sstevel@tonic-gatecharacters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail. 464*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 465*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 466*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]); 467*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 468*0Sstevel@tonic-gateequivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>. 469*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe sequence of octets represented by 470*0Sstevel@tonic-gate$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical 471*0Sstevel@tonic-gatecharacters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so 472*0Sstevel@tonic-gateit is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see 473*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL</"Handling Malformed Data">. 474*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 475*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=back 476*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 477*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head2 Listing available encodings 478*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 479*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode; 480*0Sstevel@tonic-gate @list = Encode->encodings(); 481*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 482*0Sstevel@tonic-gateReturns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that 483*0Sstevel@tonic-gateare loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the 484*0Sstevel@tonic-gateones that are not loaded yet, say 485*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 486*0Sstevel@tonic-gate @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all"); 487*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 488*0Sstevel@tonic-gateOr you can give the name of a specific module. 489*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 490*0Sstevel@tonic-gate @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP"); 491*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 492*0Sstevel@tonic-gateWhen "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed. 493*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 494*0Sstevel@tonic-gate @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC"); 495*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 496*0Sstevel@tonic-gateTo find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package, 497*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesee L<Encode::Supported>. 498*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 499*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head2 Defining Aliases 500*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 501*0Sstevel@tonic-gateTo add a new alias to a given encoding, use: 502*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 503*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode; 504*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode::Alias; 505*0Sstevel@tonic-gate define_alias(newName => ENCODING); 506*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 507*0Sstevel@tonic-gateAfter that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING. 508*0Sstevel@tonic-gateENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an 509*0Sstevel@tonic-gateI<encoding object> 510*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 511*0Sstevel@tonic-gateBut before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with 512*0Sstevel@tonic-gateC<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof. 513*0Sstevel@tonic-gatei.e. 514*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 515*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true 516*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent 517*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical 518*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 519*0Sstevel@tonic-gateresolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be 520*0Sstevel@tonic-gateexported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>. 521*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 522*0Sstevel@tonic-gateSee L<Encode::Alias> for details. 523*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 524*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 Encoding via PerlIO 525*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 526*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode 527*0Sstevel@tonic-gateand encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples 528*0Sstevel@tonic-gateare totally identical in their functionality. 529*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 530*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # via PerlIO 531*0Sstevel@tonic-gate open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die; 532*0Sstevel@tonic-gate open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die; 533*0Sstevel@tonic-gate while(<$in>){ print $out $_; } 534*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 535*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # via from_to 536*0Sstevel@tonic-gate open my $in, "<", $infile or die; 537*0Sstevel@tonic-gate open my $out, ">", $outfile or die; 538*0Sstevel@tonic-gate while(<$in>){ 539*0Sstevel@tonic-gate from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1); 540*0Sstevel@tonic-gate print $out $_; 541*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 542*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 543*0Sstevel@tonic-gateUnfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check 544*0Sstevel@tonic-gateif your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok> 545*0Sstevel@tonic-gatemethod. 546*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 547*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False 548*0Sstevel@tonic-gate find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available 549*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 550*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request 551*0Sstevel@tonic-gate perlio_ok("euc-jp") 552*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 553*0Sstevel@tonic-gateFortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy 554*0Sstevel@tonic-gateexcept for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>. 555*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 556*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 Handling Malformed Data 557*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 558*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it, 559*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethe behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for 560*0Sstevel@tonic-gateI<CHECK>. 561*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 562*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=over 2 563*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 564*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0) 565*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 566*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character> 567*0Sstevel@tonic-gatein place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings, 568*0Sstevel@tonic-gateE<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, the code point C<0xFFFD> is used. 569*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning 570*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(category utf8) is given. 571*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 572*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1) 573*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 574*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error 575*0Sstevel@tonic-gatemessage. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the 576*0Sstevel@tonic-gatefatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error. 577*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 578*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET 579*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 580*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately 581*0Sstevel@tonic-gatereturn the portion of the data that has been processed so far when 582*0Sstevel@tonic-gatean error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with 583*0Sstevel@tonic-gateeverything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data). 584*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThis is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case 585*0Sstevel@tonic-gatewhere your source data may contain partial multi-byte character 586*0Sstevel@tonic-gatesequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width 587*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebuffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this: 588*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 589*0Sstevel@tonic-gate my $data = ''; my $utf8 = ''; 590*0Sstevel@tonic-gate while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){ 591*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # buffer may end in a partial character so we append 592*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $data .= $buffer; 593*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, Encode::FB_QUIET); 594*0Sstevel@tonic-gate # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character 595*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 596*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 597*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN 598*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 599*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThis is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when 600*0Sstevel@tonic-gateyou are debugging the mode above. 601*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 602*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ) 603*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 604*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF) 605*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 606*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF) 607*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 608*0Sstevel@tonic-gateFor encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK == 609*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEncode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode. 610*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 611*0Sstevel@tonic-gateWhen you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character, 612*0Sstevel@tonic-gatewhere I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be 613*0Sstevel@tonic-gatedecoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted, 614*0Sstevel@tonic-gatewhere I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found 615*0Sstevel@tonic-gatein the character repertoire of the encoding. 616*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 617*0Sstevel@tonic-gateHTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of 618*0Sstevel@tonic-gateC<\x{I<HHHH>}>, HTML uses C<&#I<NNNN>>; where I<NNNN> is a decimal digit and 619*0Sstevel@tonic-gateXML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>>; where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal digit. 620*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 621*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item The bitmask 622*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 623*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThese modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX 624*0Sstevel@tonic-gateconstants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via 625*0Sstevel@tonic-gateC<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask 626*0Sstevel@tonic-gateconstants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>. 627*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 628*0Sstevel@tonic-gate FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ 629*0Sstevel@tonic-gate DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X 630*0Sstevel@tonic-gate WARN_ON_ERR 0x0002 X 631*0Sstevel@tonic-gate RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X 632*0Sstevel@tonic-gate LEAVE_SRC 0x0008 633*0Sstevel@tonic-gate PERLQQ 0x0100 X 634*0Sstevel@tonic-gate HTMLCREF 0x0200 635*0Sstevel@tonic-gate XMLCREF 0x0400 636*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 637*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=back 638*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 639*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes 640*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 641*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIn the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback 642*0Sstevel@tonic-gatefunction for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided. 643*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 644*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe fallback scheme does not work on EBCDIC platforms. 645*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 646*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 Defining Encodings 647*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 648*0Sstevel@tonic-gateTo define a new encoding, use: 649*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 650*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode qw(define_encoding); 651*0Sstevel@tonic-gate define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]); 652*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 653*0Sstevel@tonic-gateI<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object 654*0Sstevel@tonic-gateshould provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>. 655*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf more than two arguments are provided then additional 656*0Sstevel@tonic-gatearguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>. 657*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 658*0Sstevel@tonic-gateSee L<Encode::Encoding> for more details. 659*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 660*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 The UTF-8 flag 661*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 662*0Sstevel@tonic-gateBefore the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator 663*0Sstevel@tonic-gatejust compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with 664*0Sstevel@tonic-gateperl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration 665*0Sstevel@tonic-gateof I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page 666*0Sstevel@tonic-gate402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> 667*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 668*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=over 2 669*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 670*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item Goal #1: 671*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 672*0Sstevel@tonic-gateOld byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old 673*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebyte-oriented data they used to work on. 674*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 675*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item Goal #2: 676*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 677*0Sstevel@tonic-gateOld byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new 678*0Sstevel@tonic-gatecharacter-oriented data when appropriate. 679*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 680*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item Goal #3: 681*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 682*0Sstevel@tonic-gatePrograms should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode 683*0Sstevel@tonic-gateas in the old byte-oriented mode. 684*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 685*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item Goal #4: 686*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 687*0Sstevel@tonic-gatePerl should remain one language, rather than forking into a 688*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebyte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl. 689*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 690*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=back 691*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 692*0Sstevel@tonic-gateBack when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0 693*0Sstevel@tonic-gatewas born and many features documented in the book remained 694*0Sstevel@tonic-gateunimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction 695*0Sstevel@tonic-gateof the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a 696*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebyte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8 697*0Sstevel@tonic-gateflag on). 698*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 699*0Sstevel@tonic-gateHere is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag. 700*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 701*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=over 2 702*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 703*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item * 704*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 705*0Sstevel@tonic-gateWhen you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off. 706*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 707*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item * 708*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 709*0Sstevel@tonic-gateWhen you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can 710*0Sstevel@tonic-gateunambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of 711*0Sstevel@tonic-gatedis-ambiguity. 712*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 713*0Sstevel@tonic-gateAfter C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>, 714*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 715*0Sstevel@tonic-gate When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is 716*0Sstevel@tonic-gate --------------------------------------------- 717*0Sstevel@tonic-gate In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF 718*0Sstevel@tonic-gate In ISO-8859-1 ON 719*0Sstevel@tonic-gate In any other Encoding ON 720*0Sstevel@tonic-gate --------------------------------------------- 721*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 722*0Sstevel@tonic-gateAs you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue 723*0Sstevel@tonic-gateGoal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be 724*0Sstevel@tonic-gatecareful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs. 725*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 726*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThis utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same 727*0Sstevel@tonic-gatereason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a 728*0Sstevel@tonic-gatestring, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek 729*0Sstevel@tonic-gateand poke these if you will. See the section below. 730*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 731*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=back 732*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 733*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals 734*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 735*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current 736*0Sstevel@tonic-gateimplementation. As such, they are efficient but may change. 737*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 738*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=over 2 739*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 740*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]) 741*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 742*0Sstevel@tonic-gate[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING. 743*0Sstevel@tonic-gateIf CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed 744*0Sstevel@tonic-gateUTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. 745*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 746*0Sstevel@tonic-gateAs of perl 5.8.1, L<utf8> also has utf8::is_utf8(). 747*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 748*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item _utf8_on(STRING) 749*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 750*0Sstevel@tonic-gate[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is 751*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you 752*0Sstevel@tonic-gateB<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous 753*0Sstevel@tonic-gatestate of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as 754*0Sstevel@tonic-gateindicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string. 755*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 756*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=item _utf8_off(STRING) 757*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 758*0Sstevel@tonic-gate[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously. 759*0Sstevel@tonic-gateReturns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the 760*0Sstevel@tonic-gatereturn value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is 761*0Sstevel@tonic-gatenot a string. 762*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 763*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=back 764*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 765*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 SEE ALSO 766*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 767*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<Encode::Encoding>, 768*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<Encode::Supported>, 769*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<Encode::PerlIO>, 770*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<encoding>, 771*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<perlebcdic>, 772*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<perlfunc/open>, 773*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<perlunicode>, 774*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<utf8>, 775*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethe Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> 776*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 777*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 MAINTAINER 778*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 779*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThis project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained 780*0Sstevel@tonic-gateby Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full 781*0Sstevel@tonic-gatelist of people involved. For any questions, use 782*0Sstevel@tonic-gateE<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share. 783*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 784*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=cut 785