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1 | package Encode; |
2 | |
3 | $VERSION = 0.01; |
4 | |
5 | require DynaLoader; |
6 | require Exporter; |
7 | |
8 | @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader); |
9 | |
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10 | # Public, encouraged API is exported by default |
11 | @EXPORT = qw ( |
12 | encode |
13 | decode |
14 | encode_utf8 |
15 | decode_utf8 |
16 | find_encoding |
17 | ); |
18 | |
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19 | @EXPORT_OK = |
20 | qw( |
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21 | encodings |
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22 | from_to |
23 | is_utf8 |
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24 | is_8bit |
25 | is_16bit |
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26 | utf8_upgrade |
27 | utf8_downgrade |
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28 | _utf8_on |
29 | _utf8_off |
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30 | ); |
31 | |
32 | bootstrap Encode (); |
33 | |
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34 | # Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S |
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35 | |
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36 | use Carp; |
37 | |
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38 | # The global hash is declared in XS code |
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39 | $encoding{Unicode} = bless({},'Encode::Unicode'); |
40 | $encoding{utf8} = bless({},'Encode::utf8'); |
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41 | $encoding{'iso10646-1'} = bless({},'Encode::iso10646_1'); |
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42 | |
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43 | sub encodings |
44 | { |
45 | my ($class) = @_; |
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46 | foreach my $dir (@INC) |
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47 | { |
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48 | if (opendir(my $dh,"$dir/Encode")) |
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49 | { |
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50 | while (defined(my $name = readdir($dh))) |
51 | { |
52 | if ($name =~ /^(.*)\.enc$/) |
53 | { |
54 | next if exists $encoding{$1}; |
55 | $encoding{$1} = "$dir/$name"; |
56 | } |
57 | } |
58 | closedir($dh); |
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59 | } |
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60 | } |
61 | return keys %encoding; |
62 | } |
63 | |
64 | sub loadEncoding |
65 | { |
66 | my ($class,$name,$file) = @_; |
67 | if (open(my $fh,$file)) |
68 | { |
69 | my $type; |
70 | while (1) |
71 | { |
72 | my $line = <$fh>; |
73 | $type = substr($line,0,1); |
74 | last unless $type eq '#'; |
75 | } |
76 | $class .= ('::'.(($type eq 'E') ? 'Escape' : 'Table')); |
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77 | #warn "Loading $file"; |
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78 | return $class->read($fh,$name,$type); |
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79 | } |
80 | else |
81 | { |
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82 | return undef; |
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83 | } |
656753f8 |
84 | } |
85 | |
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86 | sub getEncoding |
87 | { |
88 | my ($class,$name) = @_; |
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89 | my $enc; |
90 | unless (ref($enc = $encoding{$name})) |
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91 | { |
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92 | $enc = $class->loadEncoding($name,$enc) if defined $enc; |
93 | unless (ref($enc)) |
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94 | { |
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95 | foreach my $dir (@INC) |
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96 | { |
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97 | last if ($enc = $class->loadEncoding($name,"$dir/Encode/$name.enc")); |
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98 | } |
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99 | } |
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100 | $encoding{$name} = $enc; |
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101 | } |
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102 | return $enc; |
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103 | } |
104 | |
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105 | sub find_encoding |
106 | { |
107 | my ($name) = @_; |
108 | return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name); |
109 | } |
110 | |
111 | sub encode |
112 | { |
113 | my ($name,$string,$check) = @_; |
114 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
115 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; |
116 | my $octets = $enc->fromUnicode($string,$check); |
117 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); |
118 | return $octets; |
119 | } |
120 | |
121 | sub decode |
122 | { |
123 | my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_; |
124 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
125 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; |
126 | my $string = $enc->toUnicode($octets,$check); |
127 | return undef if ($check && length($octets)); |
128 | return $string; |
129 | } |
130 | |
131 | sub from_to |
132 | { |
133 | my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_; |
134 | my $f = find_encoding($from); |
135 | croak("Unknown encoding '$from'") unless defined $f; |
136 | my $t = find_encoding($to); |
137 | croak("Unknown encoding '$to'") unless defined $t; |
138 | my $uni = $f->toUnicode($string,$check); |
139 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); |
140 | $string = $t->fromUnicode($uni,$check); |
141 | return undef if ($check && length($uni)); |
142 | return length($_[0] = $string); |
143 | } |
144 | |
145 | sub encode_utf8 |
146 | { |
147 | my ($str) = @_; |
148 | utf8_encode($str); |
149 | return $str; |
150 | } |
151 | |
152 | sub decode_utf8 |
153 | { |
154 | my ($str) = @_; |
155 | return undef unless utf8_decode($str); |
156 | return $str; |
157 | } |
158 | |
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159 | package Encode::Unicode; |
160 | |
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161 | # Dummy package that provides the encode interface but leaves data |
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162 | # as UTF-8 encoded. It is here so that from_to() works. |
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163 | |
164 | sub name { 'Unicode' } |
165 | |
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166 | sub toUnicode |
167 | { |
168 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; |
169 | Encode::utf8_upgrade($str); |
170 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; |
171 | return $str; |
172 | } |
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173 | |
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174 | *fromUnicode = \&toUnicode; |
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175 | |
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176 | package Encode::utf8; |
177 | |
178 | # package to allow long-hand |
179 | # $octets = encode( utf8 => $string ); |
180 | # |
181 | |
182 | sub name { 'utf8' } |
183 | |
184 | sub toUnicode |
185 | { |
186 | my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_; |
187 | my $str = decode_utf8($octets); |
188 | if (defined $str) |
189 | { |
190 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; |
191 | return $str; |
192 | } |
193 | return undef; |
194 | } |
195 | |
196 | sub fromUnicode |
197 | { |
198 | my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_; |
199 | my $octets = encode_utf8($string); |
200 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; |
201 | return $octets; |
202 | |
203 | } |
204 | |
205 | *fromUnicode = \&toUnicode; |
206 | |
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207 | package Encode::Table; |
208 | |
209 | sub read |
210 | { |
211 | my ($class,$fh,$name,$type) = @_; |
212 | my $rep = $class->can("rep_$type"); |
213 | my ($def,$sym,$pages) = split(/\s+/,scalar(<$fh>)); |
214 | my @touni; |
215 | my %fmuni; |
216 | my $count = 0; |
217 | $def = hex($def); |
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218 | while ($pages--) |
219 | { |
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220 | my $line = <$fh>; |
221 | chomp($line); |
222 | my $page = hex($line); |
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223 | my @page; |
224 | my $ch = $page * 256; |
225 | for (my $i = 0; $i < 16; $i++) |
226 | { |
227 | my $line = <$fh>; |
228 | for (my $j = 0; $j < 16; $j++) |
229 | { |
230 | my $val = hex(substr($line,0,4,'')); |
231 | if ($val || !$ch) |
232 | { |
233 | my $uch = chr($val); |
234 | push(@page,$uch); |
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235 | $fmuni{$uch} = $ch; |
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236 | $count++; |
237 | } |
238 | else |
239 | { |
240 | push(@page,undef); |
241 | } |
242 | $ch++; |
243 | } |
244 | } |
245 | $touni[$page] = \@page; |
246 | } |
247 | |
248 | return bless {Name => $name, |
249 | Rep => $rep, |
250 | ToUni => \@touni, |
251 | FmUni => \%fmuni, |
252 | Def => $def, |
253 | Num => $count, |
254 | },$class; |
255 | } |
256 | |
257 | sub name { shift->{'Name'} } |
258 | |
259 | sub rep_S { 'C' } |
260 | |
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261 | sub rep_D { 'n' } |
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262 | |
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263 | sub rep_M { ($_[0] > 255) ? 'n' : 'C' } |
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264 | |
265 | sub representation |
266 | { |
267 | my ($obj,$ch) = @_; |
268 | $ch = 0 unless @_ > 1; |
269 | $obj-{'Rep'}->($ch); |
270 | } |
271 | |
272 | sub toUnicode |
273 | { |
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274 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; |
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275 | my $rep = $obj->{'Rep'}; |
276 | my $touni = $obj->{'ToUni'}; |
277 | my $uni = ''; |
278 | while (length($str)) |
279 | { |
280 | my $ch = ord(substr($str,0,1,'')); |
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281 | my $x; |
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282 | if (&$rep($ch) eq 'C') |
283 | { |
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284 | $x = $touni->[0][$ch]; |
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285 | } |
286 | else |
287 | { |
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288 | $x = $touni->[$ch][ord(substr($str,0,1,''))]; |
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289 | } |
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290 | unless (defined $x) |
291 | { |
292 | last if $chk; |
293 | # What do we do here ? |
294 | $x = ''; |
295 | } |
296 | $uni .= $x; |
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297 | } |
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298 | $_[1] = $str if $chk; |
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299 | return $uni; |
300 | } |
301 | |
302 | sub fromUnicode |
303 | { |
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304 | my ($obj,$uni,$chk) = @_; |
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305 | my $fmuni = $obj->{'FmUni'}; |
306 | my $str = ''; |
307 | my $def = $obj->{'Def'}; |
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308 | my $rep = $obj->{'Rep'}; |
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309 | while (length($uni)) |
310 | { |
311 | my $ch = substr($uni,0,1,''); |
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312 | my $x = $fmuni->{chr(ord($ch))}; |
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313 | unless (defined $x) |
314 | { |
315 | last if ($chk); |
316 | $x = $def; |
317 | } |
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318 | $str .= pack(&$rep($x),$x); |
319 | } |
320 | $_[1] = $uni if $chk; |
321 | return $str; |
322 | } |
323 | |
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324 | package Encode::iso10646_1; |
325 | # Encoding is 16-bit network order Unicode |
326 | # Used for X font encodings |
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327 | |
328 | sub name { 'iso10646-1' } |
329 | |
330 | sub toUnicode |
331 | { |
332 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; |
333 | my $uni = ''; |
334 | while (length($str)) |
335 | { |
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336 | my $code = unpack('n',substr($str,0,2,'')) & 0xffff; |
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337 | $uni .= chr($code); |
338 | } |
339 | $_[1] = $str if $chk; |
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340 | Encode::utf8_upgrade($uni); |
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341 | return $uni; |
342 | } |
343 | |
344 | sub fromUnicode |
345 | { |
346 | my ($obj,$uni,$chk) = @_; |
347 | my $str = ''; |
348 | while (length($uni)) |
349 | { |
350 | my $ch = substr($uni,0,1,''); |
351 | my $x = ord($ch); |
352 | unless ($x < 32768) |
353 | { |
354 | last if ($chk); |
355 | $x = 0; |
356 | } |
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357 | $str .= pack('n',$x); |
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358 | } |
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359 | $_[1] = $uni if $chk; |
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360 | return $str; |
361 | } |
362 | |
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363 | |
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364 | package Encode::Escape; |
365 | use Carp; |
366 | |
367 | sub read |
368 | { |
369 | my ($class,$fh,$name) = @_; |
370 | my %self = (Name => $name, Num => 0); |
371 | while (<$fh>) |
372 | { |
373 | my ($key,$val) = /^(\S+)\s+(.*)$/; |
374 | $val =~ s/^\{(.*?)\}/$1/g; |
375 | $val =~ s/\\x([0-9a-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge; |
376 | $self{$key} = $val; |
377 | } |
378 | return bless \%self,$class; |
379 | } |
380 | |
381 | sub name { shift->{'Name'} } |
382 | |
383 | sub toUnicode |
384 | { |
385 | croak("Not implemented yet"); |
386 | } |
387 | |
388 | sub fromUnicode |
389 | { |
390 | croak("Not implemented yet"); |
391 | } |
392 | |
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393 | # switch back to Encode package in case we ever add AutoLoader |
394 | package Encode; |
395 | |
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396 | 1; |
397 | |
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398 | =head1 NAME |
399 | |
400 | Encode - character encodings |
401 | |
402 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
403 | |
404 | use Encode; |
405 | |
406 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
407 | |
408 | The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between perl's strings |
409 | and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of B<characters>. |
410 | |
411 | The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that |
412 | defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal values |
413 | of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode codepoint" for |
414 | the character (the exceptions are those platforms where the legacy |
415 | encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set of ASCII |
416 | - see L<perlebcdic>). |
417 | |
418 | Traditionaly computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks |
419 | often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in |
420 | networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of |
421 | many types - not only strings of characters representing human or |
422 | computer languages but also "binary" data being the machines representation |
423 | of numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything. |
424 | |
425 | When perl is processing "binary data" the programmer wants perl to process |
426 | "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for perl - as a byte has 256 |
427 | possible values it easily fits in perl's much larger "logical character". |
428 | |
429 | =head2 TERMINOLOGY |
430 | |
431 | =over |
432 | |
433 | =item * |
434 | |
435 | I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more). |
436 | (What perl's strings are made of.) |
437 | |
438 | =item * |
439 | |
440 | I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255 |
441 | (A special case of a perl character.) |
442 | |
443 | =item * |
444 | |
445 | I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255 |
446 | (Term for bytes passed to or from a non-perl context, e.g. disk file.) |
447 | |
448 | =back |
449 | |
450 | The marker [INTERNAL] marks Internal Implementation Details, in |
451 | general meant only for those who think they know what they are doing, |
452 | and such details may change in future releases. |
453 | |
454 | =head1 ENCODINGS |
455 | |
456 | =head2 Characteristics of an Encoding |
457 | |
458 | An encoding has a "repertoire" of characters that it can represent, |
459 | and for each representable character there is at least one sequence of |
460 | octets that represents it. |
461 | |
462 | =head2 Types of Encodings |
463 | |
464 | Encodings can be divided into the following types: |
465 | |
466 | =over 4 |
467 | |
468 | =item * Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings. |
469 | |
470 | Each character is a single octet so may have a repertoire of up to |
471 | 256 characters. ASCII and iso-8859-* are typical examples. |
472 | |
473 | =item * Fixed length 16-bit encodings |
474 | |
475 | Each character is two octets so may have a repertoire of up to |
476 | 65,536 characters. Unicode's UCS-2 is an example. Also used for |
477 | encodings for East Asian languages. |
478 | |
479 | =item * Fixed length 32-bit encodings. |
480 | |
481 | Not really very "encoded" encodings. The Unicode code points |
482 | are just represented as 4-octet integers. None the less because |
483 | different architectures use different representations of integers |
484 | (so called "endian") there at least two disctinct encodings. |
485 | |
486 | =item * Multi-byte encodings |
487 | |
488 | The number of octets needed to represent a character varies. |
489 | UTF-8 is a particularly complex but regular case of a multi-byte |
490 | encoding. Several East Asian countries use a multi-byte encoding |
491 | where 1-octet is used to cover western roman characters and Asian |
492 | characters get 2-octets. |
493 | (UTF-16 is strictly a multi-byte encoding taking either 2 or 4 octets |
494 | to represent a Unicode code point.) |
495 | |
496 | =item * "Escape" encodings. |
497 | |
498 | These encodings embed "escape sequences" into the octet sequence |
499 | which describe how the following octets are to be interpreted. |
500 | The iso-2022-* family is typical. Following the escape sequence |
501 | octets are encoded by an "embedded" encoding (which will be one |
502 | of the above types) until another escape sequence switches to |
503 | a different "embedded" encoding. |
504 | |
505 | These schemes are very flexible and can handle mixed languages but are |
506 | very complex to process (and have state). |
507 | No escape encodings are implemented for perl yet. |
508 | |
509 | =back |
510 | |
511 | =head2 Specifying Encodings |
512 | |
513 | Encodings can be specified to the API described below in two ways: |
514 | |
515 | =over 4 |
516 | |
517 | =item 1. By name |
518 | |
519 | Encoding names are strings with characters taken from a restricted repertoire. |
520 | See L</"Encoding Names">. |
521 | |
522 | =item 2. As an object |
523 | |
524 | Encoding objects are returned by C<find_encoding($name)>. |
525 | |
526 | =back |
527 | |
528 | =head2 Encoding Names |
529 | |
530 | Encoding names are case insensitive. White space in names is ignored. |
531 | In addition an encoding may have aliases. Each encoding has one "canonical" name. |
532 | The "canonical" name is chosen from the names of the encoding by picking |
533 | the first in the following sequence: |
534 | |
535 | =over 4 |
536 | |
537 | =item * The MIME name as defined in IETF RFC-XXXX. |
538 | |
539 | =item * The name in the IANA registry. |
540 | |
541 | =item * The name used by the the organization that defined it. |
542 | |
543 | =back |
544 | |
545 | Because of all the alias issues, and because in the general case |
546 | encodings have state C<Encode> uses the encoding object internally |
547 | once an operation is in progress. |
548 | |
549 | I<Aliasing is not yet implemented.> |
550 | |
551 | =head1 PERL ENCODING API |
552 | |
553 | =head2 Generic Encoding Interface |
554 | |
555 | =over 4 |
556 | |
557 | =item * |
558 | |
559 | $bytes = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK]) |
560 | |
561 | Encodes string from perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns a |
562 | sequence of octets. |
563 | See L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
564 | |
565 | =item * |
566 | |
567 | $string = decode(ENCODING, $bytes[, CHECK]) |
568 | |
569 | Decode sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into perls internal |
570 | form and returns the resuting string. |
571 | See L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
572 | |
573 | =back |
574 | |
575 | =head2 Handling Malformed Data |
576 | |
577 | If CHECK is not set, C<undef> is returned. If the data is supposed to |
578 | be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning (category utf8) is given. |
579 | If CHECK is true but not a code reference, dies. |
580 | |
581 | It would desirable to have a way to indicate that transform should use the |
582 | encodings "replacement character" - no such mechanism is defined yet. |
583 | |
584 | It is also planned to allow I<CHECK> to be a code reference. |
585 | |
586 | This is not yet implemented as there are design issues with what its arguments |
587 | should be and how it returns its results. |
588 | |
589 | =over 4 |
590 | |
591 | =item Scheme 1 |
592 | |
593 | Passed remaining fragment of string being processed. |
594 | Modifies it in place to remove bytes/characters it can understand |
595 | and returns a string used to represent them. |
596 | e.g. |
597 | |
598 | sub fixup { |
599 | my $ch = substr($_[0],0,1,''); |
600 | return sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch); |
601 | } |
602 | |
603 | This scheme is close to how underlying C code for Encode works, but gives |
604 | the fixup routine very little context. |
605 | |
606 | =item Scheme 2 |
607 | |
608 | Passed original string, and an index into it of the problem area, |
609 | and output string so far. |
610 | Appends what it will to output string and returns new index into |
611 | original string. |
612 | e.g. |
613 | |
614 | sub fixup { |
615 | # my ($s,$i,$d) = @_; |
616 | my $ch = substr($_[0],$_[1],1); |
617 | $_[2] .= sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch); |
618 | return $_[1]+1; |
619 | } |
620 | |
621 | This scheme gives maximal control to the fixup routine but is more complicated |
622 | to code, and may need internals of Encode to be tweaked to keep original |
623 | string intact. |
624 | |
625 | =item Other Schemes |
626 | |
627 | Hybrids of above. |
628 | |
629 | Multiple return values rather than in-place modifications. |
630 | |
631 | Index into the string could be pos($str) allowing s/\G...//. |
632 | |
633 | =back |
634 | |
635 | =head2 UTF-8 / utf8 |
636 | |
637 | The Unicode consortium defines the UTF-8 standard as a way of encoding |
638 | the entire Unicode repertiore as sequences of octets. This encoding |
639 | is expected to become very widespread. Perl can use this form internaly |
640 | to represent strings, so conversions to and from this form are particularly |
641 | efficient (as octets in memory do not have to change, just the meta-data |
642 | that tells perl how to treat them). |
643 | |
644 | =over 4 |
645 | |
646 | =item * |
647 | |
648 | $bytes = encode_utf8($string); |
649 | |
650 | The characters that comprise string are encoded in perl's superset of UTF-8 |
651 | and the resulting octets returned as a sequence of bytes. All possible |
652 | characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail. |
653 | |
654 | =item * |
655 | |
656 | $string = decode_utf8($bytes [,CHECK]); |
657 | |
658 | The sequence of octets represented by $bytes is decoded from UTF-8 into |
659 | a sequence of logical characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid |
660 | UTF-8 encodings, so it is possible for this call to fail. |
661 | See L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
662 | |
663 | =back |
664 | |
665 | =head2 Other Encodings of Unicode |
666 | |
667 | UTF-16 is similar to UCS-2, 16 bit or 2-byte chunks. |
668 | UCS-2 can only represent 0..0xFFFF, while UTF-16 has a "surogate pair" |
669 | scheme which allows it to cover the whole Unicode range. |
670 | |
671 | Encode implements big-endian UCS-2 as the encoding "iso10646-1" as that |
672 | happens to be the name used by that representation when used with X11 fonts. |
673 | |
674 | UTF-32 or UCS-4 is 32-bit or 4-byte chunks. Perl's logical characters |
675 | can be considered as being in this form without encoding. An encoding |
676 | to transfer strings in this form (e.g. to write them to a file) would need to |
677 | |
678 | pack('L',map(chr($_),split(//,$string))); # native |
679 | or |
680 | pack('V',map(chr($_),split(//,$string))); # little-endian |
681 | or |
682 | pack('N',map(chr($_),split(//,$string))); # big-endian |
683 | |
684 | depending on the endian required. |
685 | |
686 | No UTF-32 encodings are not yet implemented. |
687 | |
688 | Both UCS-2 and UCS-4 style encodings can have "byte order marks" by representing |
689 | the code point 0xFFFE as the very first thing in a file. |
690 | |
691 | =head1 Encoding and IO |
692 | |
693 | It is very common to want to do encoding transformations when |
694 | reading or writing files, network connections, pipes etc. |
695 | If perl is configured to use the new 'perlio' IO system then |
696 | C<Encode> provides a "layer" (See L<perliol>) which can transform |
697 | data as it is read or written. |
698 | |
699 | open(my $ilyad,'>:encoding(iso8859-7)','ilyad.greek'); |
700 | print $ilyad @epic; |
701 | |
702 | In addition the new IO system can also be configured to read/write |
703 | UTF-8 encoded characters (as noted above this is efficient): |
704 | |
705 | open(my $fh,'>:utf8','anything'); |
706 | print $fh "Any \x{0021} string \N{SMILEY FACE}\n"; |
707 | |
708 | Either of the above forms of "layer" specifications can be made the default |
709 | for a lexical scope with the C<use open ...> pragma. See L<open>. |
710 | |
711 | Once a handle is open is layers can be altered using C<binmode>. |
712 | |
713 | Without any such configuration, or if perl itself is built using |
714 | system's own IO, then write operations assume that file handle accepts |
715 | only I<bytes> and will C<die> if a character larger than 255 is |
716 | written to the handle. When reading, each octet from the handle |
717 | becomes a byte-in-a-character. Note that this default is the same |
718 | behaviour as bytes-only languages (including perl before v5.6) would have, |
719 | and is sufficient to handle native 8-bit encodings e.g. iso-8859-1, |
720 | EBCDIC etc. and any legacy mechanisms for handling other encodings |
721 | and binary data. |
722 | |
723 | In other cases it is the programs responsibility |
724 | to transform characters into bytes using the API above before |
725 | doing writes, and to transform the bytes read from a handle into characters |
726 | before doing "character operations" (e.g. C<lc>, C</\W+/>, ...). |
727 | |
728 | =head1 Encoding How to ... |
729 | |
730 | To do: |
731 | |
732 | =over 4 |
733 | |
734 | =item * IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*) |
735 | |
736 | =item * MIME's Content-Length: |
737 | |
738 | =item * UTF-8 strings in binary data. |
739 | |
740 | =item * perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules. |
741 | |
742 | =back |
743 | |
744 | =head1 Messing with Perl's Internals |
745 | |
746 | The following API uses parts of perl's internals in the current implementation. |
747 | As such they are efficient, but may change. |
748 | |
749 | =over 4 |
750 | |
751 | =item * |
752 | |
753 | $num_octets = utf8_upgrade($string); |
754 | |
755 | Converts internal representation of string to the UTF-8 form. |
756 | Returns the number of octets necessary to represent the string as UTF-8. |
757 | |
758 | =item * utf8_downgrade($string[, CHECK]) |
759 | |
760 | Converts internal representation of string to be un-encoded bytes. |
761 | |
762 | =item * is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]) |
763 | |
764 | [INTERNAL] Test whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING. |
765 | If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being |
766 | well-formed UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. |
767 | |
768 | =item * valid_utf8(STRING) |
769 | |
770 | [INTERNAL] Test whether STRING is in a consistent state. |
771 | Will return true if string is held as bytes, or is well-formed UTF-8 |
772 | and has the UTF-8 flag on. |
773 | Main reason for this routine is to allow perl's testsuite to check |
774 | that operations have left strings in a consistent state. |
775 | |
776 | =item * |
777 | |
778 | _utf8_on(STRING) |
779 | |
780 | [INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is |
781 | B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you |
782 | B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous |
783 | state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the return value as |
784 | I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string. |
785 | |
786 | =item * |
787 | |
788 | _utf8_off(STRING) |
789 | |
790 | [INTERNAL] Turn off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously. |
791 | Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the |
792 | return value as I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is |
793 | not a string. |
794 | |
795 | =back |
796 | |
797 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
798 | |
799 | L<perlunicode>, L<perlebcdic>, L<perlfunc/open> |
800 | |
801 | =cut |
802 | |
803 | |
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804 | __END__ |