Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
- use Encode qw/encode decode/;
- $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
- $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows.
- Canonical Alias Description
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- big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/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
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To find out how to use this module in detail, see Encode.
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.
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.