| 1 | package Encode::TW; |
| 2 | BEGIN { |
| 3 | if (ord("A") == 193) { |
| 4 | die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n"; |
| 5 | } |
| 6 | } |
| 7 | our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 2.0 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; |
| 8 | |
| 9 | use Encode; |
| 10 | use XSLoader; |
| 11 | XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__,$VERSION); |
| 12 | |
| 13 | 1; |
| 14 | __END__ |
| 15 | |
| 16 | =head1 NAME |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Encode::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", $big5); # ditto |
| 25 | |
| 26 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| 27 | |
| 28 | This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used |
| 29 | in Taiwan and Hong Kong. |
| 30 | Encodings supported are as follows. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Canonical Alias Description |
| 33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 34 | big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/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 | |
| 45 | To find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | =head1 NOTES |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Due 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 |
| 52 | on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains |
| 53 | extra China-based encodings. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | =head1 BUGS |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Since 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 |
| 59 | uses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias |
| 60 | C<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original |
| 61 | big5. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643> |
| 64 | manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains |
| 65 | planes 1-7. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even |
| 68 | though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See |
| 69 | |
| 70 | L<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en> |
| 71 | |
| 72 | to find out why it is implemented that way. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
| 75 | |
| 76 | L<Encode> |
| 77 | |
| 78 | =cut |