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Encodings supported are as follows. .PP .Vb 12 \& Canonical Alias Description \& -------------------------------------------------------------------- \& big5-eten /\ebbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions) \& /\ebbig5-?et(en)?$/i \& /\ebtca-?big5$/i \& big5-hkscs /\ebbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i \& /\ebhk(scs)?-?big5$/i \& Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong \& MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings \& cp950 Code Page 950 \& = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings \& -------------------------------------------------------------------- .Ve .PP To find out how to use this module in detail, see Encode. .SH "NOTES" .IX Header "NOTES" Due to size concerns, \f(CW\*(C`EUC\-TW\*(C'\fR (Extended Unix Character), \f(CW\*(C`CCCII\*(C'\fR (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), \f(CW\*(C`BIG5PLUS\*(C'\fR (\s-1CMEX\s0's Big5+) and \f(CW\*(C`BIG5EXT\*(C'\fR (\s-1CMEX\s0's Big5e) are distributed separately on \s-1CPAN\s0, under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra China-based encodings. .SH "BUGS" .IX Header "BUGS" Since the original \f(CW\*(C`big5\*(C'\fR encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere (glibc and DOS-based systems uses \f(CW\*(C`big5\*(C'\fR to mean \f(CW\*(C`big5\-eten\*(C'\fR; Microsoft uses \f(CW\*(C`big5\*(C'\fR to mean \f(CW\*(C`cp950\*(C'\fR), a conscious decision was made to alias \&\f(CW\*(C`big5\*(C'\fR to \f(CW\*(C`big5\-eten\*(C'\fR, which is the de facto superset of the original big5. .PP The \f(CW\*(C`CNS11643\*(C'\fR encoding files are not complete. For common \f(CW\*(C`CNS11643\*(C'\fR manipulation, please use \f(CW\*(C`EUC\-TW\*(C'\fR in Encode::HanExtra, which contains planes 1\-7. .PP The \s-1ASCII\s0 region (0x00\-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See .PP .PP to find out why it is implemented that way. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" Encode