package Encode::TW; BEGIN { if ( ord("A") == 193 ) { die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n"; } } use strict; use warnings; use Encode; our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.3 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r }; use XSLoader; XSLoader::load( __PACKAGE__, $VERSION ); 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings =head1 SYNOPSIS use Encode qw/encode decode/; $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto =head1 DESCRIPTION This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows. Canonical Alias Description -------------------------------------------------------------------- big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 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 MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings cp950 Code Page 950 = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings -------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>. =head1 NOTES Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character), C<CCCII> (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), C<BIG5PLUS> (CMEX's Big5+) and C<BIG5EXT> (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains extra China-based encodings. =head1 BUGS Since the original C<big5> encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere (glibc and DOS-based systems uses C<big5> to mean C<big5-eten>; Microsoft uses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias C<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original big5. The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643> manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<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. =head1 SEE ALSO L<Encode> =cut