Encode::TW(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Encode::TW(3pm)
NAME
Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
SYNOPSIS
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
$big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
$utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
DESCRIPTION
This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows.
Canonical Alias Description
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big5-eten /big-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions)
/big5-?et(en)?$/i
/tca-?big5$/i
big5-hkscs /big5-?hk(scs)?$/i
/hk(scs)?-?big5$/i
Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong
MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
cp950 Code Page 950
= Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings
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To find out how to use this module in detail, see Encode.
NOTES
Due to size concerns, "EUC-TW" (Extended Unix Character), "CCCII" (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), "BIG5PLUS" (CMEX's
Big5+) and "BIG5EXT" (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra
China-based encodings.
BUGS
Since the original "big5" encoding(1984) is not supported anywhere (glibc and DOS-based systems uses "big5" to mean "big5-eten"; Microsoft
uses "big5" to mean "cp950"), a conscious decision was made to alias "big5" to "big5-eten", which is the de facto superset of the original
big5.
The "CNS11643" encoding files are not complete. For common "CNS11643" manipulation, please use "EUC-TW" in Encode::HanExtra, which contains
planes 1-7.
The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See
<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
to find out why it is implemented that way.
SEE ALSO
Encode
perl v5.8.0 2002-06-01 Encode::TW(3pm)