1*0Sstevel@tonic-gatepackage Encode::TW; 2*0Sstevel@tonic-gateBEGIN { 3*0Sstevel@tonic-gate if (ord("A") == 193) { 4*0Sstevel@tonic-gate die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n"; 5*0Sstevel@tonic-gate } 6*0Sstevel@tonic-gate} 7*0Sstevel@tonic-gateour $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.26 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; 8*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 9*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuse Encode; 10*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuse XSLoader; 11*0Sstevel@tonic-gateXSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__,$VERSION); 12*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 13*0Sstevel@tonic-gate1; 14*0Sstevel@tonic-gate__END__ 15*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 16*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 NAME 17*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 18*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEncode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings 19*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 20*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 SYNOPSIS 21*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 22*0Sstevel@tonic-gate use Encode qw/encode decode/; 23*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly 24*0Sstevel@tonic-gate $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto 25*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 26*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 DESCRIPTION 27*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 28*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThis module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used 29*0Sstevel@tonic-gatein Taiwan and Hong Kong. 30*0Sstevel@tonic-gateEncodings supported are as follows. 31*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 32*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Canonical Alias Description 33*0Sstevel@tonic-gate -------------------------------------------------------------------- 34*0Sstevel@tonic-gate big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions) 35*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /\bbig5-?et(en)?$/i 36*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /\btca-?big5$/i 37*0Sstevel@tonic-gate big5-hkscs /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i 38*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /\bhk(scs)?-?big5$/i 39*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong 40*0Sstevel@tonic-gate MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings 41*0Sstevel@tonic-gate cp950 Code Page 950 42*0Sstevel@tonic-gate = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings 43*0Sstevel@tonic-gate -------------------------------------------------------------------- 44*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 45*0Sstevel@tonic-gateTo find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>. 46*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 47*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 NOTES 48*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 49*0Sstevel@tonic-gateDue to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character), C<CCCII> 50*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), C<BIG5PLUS> 51*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(CMEX's Big5+) and C<BIG5EXT> (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately 52*0Sstevel@tonic-gateon CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains 53*0Sstevel@tonic-gateextra China-based encodings. 54*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 55*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 BUGS 56*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 57*0Sstevel@tonic-gateSince the original C<big5> encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere 58*0Sstevel@tonic-gate(glibc and DOS-based systems uses C<big5> to mean C<big5-eten>; Microsoft 59*0Sstevel@tonic-gateuses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias 60*0Sstevel@tonic-gateC<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original 61*0Sstevel@tonic-gatebig5. 62*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 63*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643> 64*0Sstevel@tonic-gatemanipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains 65*0Sstevel@tonic-gateplanes 1-7. 66*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 67*0Sstevel@tonic-gateThe ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even 68*0Sstevel@tonic-gatethough this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See 69*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 70*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en> 71*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 72*0Sstevel@tonic-gateto find out why it is implemented that way. 73*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 74*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=head1 SEE ALSO 75*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 76*0Sstevel@tonic-gateL<Encode> 77*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 78*0Sstevel@tonic-gate=cut 79