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• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• NOTES
• BUGS
• SEE ALSO

#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   AliasDescription  --------------------------------------------------------------------  big5-eten   /\bbig-?5$/iBig5 encoding (with ETen extensions)      /\bbig5-?et(en)?$/i      /\btca-?big5$/i  big5-hkscs  /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i              /\bhk(scs)?-?big5$/i                                Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong  MacChineseTradBig5 + Apple Vendor Mappings  cp950                Code Page 950                                 = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings  --------------------------------------------------------------------

To find out how to use this module in detail, seeEncode.

#NOTES

Due to size concerns,EUC-TW (Extended Unix Character),CCCII (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange),BIG5PLUS (CMEX's Big5+) andBIG5EXT (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the nameEncode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra China-based encodings.

#BUGS

Since the originalbig5 encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere (glibc and DOS-based systems usesbig5 to meanbig5-eten; Microsoft usesbig5 to meancp950), a conscious decision was made to aliasbig5 tobig5-eten, which is the de facto superset of the original big5.

TheCNS11643 encoding files are not complete. For commonCNS11643 manipulation, please useEUC-TW inEncode::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

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