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10c5ecbb 1#
b7a5c9de 2# $Id: Encode.pm,v 1.64 2002/04/29 06:54:06 dankogai Exp $
10c5ecbb 3#
2c674647 4package Encode;
51ef4e11 5use strict;
b7a5c9de 6our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.64 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
5129552c 7our $DEBUG = 0;
6d1c0808 8use XSLoader ();
10c5ecbb 9XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__, $VERSION);
2c674647 10
2c674647 11require Exporter;
7e19fb92 12use base qw/Exporter/;
2c674647 13
4411f3b6 14# Public, encouraged API is exported by default
85982a32 15
16our @EXPORT = qw(
17 decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8
18 encodings find_encoding
4411f3b6 19);
20
b7a5c9de 21our @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC
af1f55d9 22 PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF);
b7a5c9de 23our @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN
af1f55d9 24 FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF);
85982a32 25
51ef4e11 26our @EXPORT_OK =
6d1c0808 27 (
85982a32 28 qw(
29 _utf8_off _utf8_on define_encoding from_to is_16bit is_8bit
30 is_utf8 perlio_ok resolve_alias utf8_downgrade utf8_upgrade
31 ),
32 @FB_FLAGS, @FB_CONSTS,
33 );
34
6d1c0808 35our %EXPORT_TAGS =
85982a32 36 (
37 all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ],
38 fallbacks => [ @FB_CONSTS ],
39 fallback_all => [ @FB_CONSTS, @FB_FLAGS ],
40 );
41
4411f3b6 42# Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S
2c674647 43
a63c962f 44our $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193);
f2a2953c 45
5d030b67 46use Encode::Alias;
47
5129552c 48# Make a %Encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating
49our %Encoding;
aae85ceb 50our %ExtModule;
51require Encode::Config;
52eval { require Encode::ConfigLocal };
5129552c 53
656753f8 54sub encodings
55{
5129552c 56 my $class = shift;
fc17bd48 57 my %enc;
58 if (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all"){
59 %enc = ( %Encoding, %ExtModule );
60 }else{
61 %enc = %Encoding;
62 for my $mod (map {m/::/o ? $_ : "Encode::$_" } @_){
63 $DEBUG and warn $mod;
64 for my $enc (keys %ExtModule){
65 $ExtModule{$enc} eq $mod and $enc{$enc} = $mod;
66 }
67 }
5129552c 68 }
69 return
ce912cd4 70 sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
fc17bd48 71 grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode|Guess)$/o} keys %enc;
51ef4e11 72}
73
85982a32 74sub perlio_ok{
0ab8f81e 75 my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]);
011b2d2f 76 $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok();
0ab8f81e 77 return 0; # safety net
85982a32 78}
79
51ef4e11 80sub define_encoding
81{
18586f54 82 my $obj = shift;
83 my $name = shift;
5129552c 84 $Encoding{$name} = $obj;
18586f54 85 my $lc = lc($name);
86 define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name;
10c5ecbb 87 while (@_){
18586f54 88 my $alias = shift;
10c5ecbb 89 define_alias($alias, $obj);
18586f54 90 }
91 return $obj;
656753f8 92}
93
656753f8 94sub getEncoding
95{
10c5ecbb 96 my ($class, $name, $skip_external) = @_;
97
98 ref($name) && $name->can('new_sequence') and return $name;
99 exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
18586f54 100 my $lc = lc $name;
10c5ecbb 101 exists $Encoding{$lc} and return $Encoding{$lc};
c50d192e 102
5129552c 103 my $oc = $class->find_alias($name);
10c5ecbb 104 defined($oc) and return $oc;
105 $lc ne $name and $oc = $class->find_alias($lc);
106 defined($oc) and return $oc;
c50d192e 107
c731e18e 108 unless ($skip_external)
d1ed7747 109 {
c731e18e 110 if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){
111 $mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm';
112 eval{ require $mod; };
10c5ecbb 113 exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
c731e18e 114 }
d1ed7747 115 }
18586f54 116 return;
656753f8 117}
118
4411f3b6 119sub find_encoding
120{
10c5ecbb 121 my ($name, $skip_external) = @_;
dd9703c9 122 return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external);
4411f3b6 123}
124
fcb875d4 125sub resolve_alias {
126 my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
127 defined $obj and return $obj->name;
128 return;
129}
130
b2704119 131sub encode($$;$)
4411f3b6 132{
18586f54 133 my ($name,$string,$check) = @_;
b2704119 134 $check ||=0;
18586f54 135 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
10c5ecbb 136 unless(defined $enc){
137 require Carp;
138 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
139 }
18586f54 140 my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check);
141 return undef if ($check && length($string));
142 return $octets;
4411f3b6 143}
144
b2704119 145sub decode($$;$)
4411f3b6 146{
18586f54 147 my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_;
b2704119 148 $check ||=0;
18586f54 149 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
10c5ecbb 150 unless(defined $enc){
151 require Carp;
152 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
153 }
18586f54 154 my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check);
155 $_[1] = $octets if $check;
156 return $string;
4411f3b6 157}
158
b2704119 159sub from_to($$$;$)
4411f3b6 160{
18586f54 161 my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_;
b2704119 162 $check ||=0;
18586f54 163 my $f = find_encoding($from);
10c5ecbb 164 unless (defined $f){
165 require Carp;
166 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$from'");
167 }
18586f54 168 my $t = find_encoding($to);
10c5ecbb 169 unless (defined $t){
170 require Carp;
171 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$to'");
172 }
18586f54 173 my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check);
174 return undef if ($check && length($string));
a999c27c 175 $string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
18586f54 176 return undef if ($check && length($uni));
3ef515df 177 return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ;
4411f3b6 178}
179
b2704119 180sub encode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 181{
18586f54 182 my ($str) = @_;
c731e18e 183 utf8::encode($str);
18586f54 184 return $str;
4411f3b6 185}
186
b2704119 187sub decode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 188{
18586f54 189 my ($str) = @_;
190 return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
191 return $str;
5ad8ef52 192}
193
f2a2953c 194predefine_encodings();
195
196#
197# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed;
198#
10c5ecbb 199
f2a2953c 200sub predefine_encodings{
10c5ecbb 201 use Encode::Encoding;
6d1c0808 202 if ($ON_EBCDIC) {
f2a2953c 203 # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC
204 package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC;
10c5ecbb 205 push @Encode::UTF_EBCDIC::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 206 *decode = sub{
207 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
208 my $res = '';
209 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 210 $res .=
f2a2953c 211 chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
212 }
213 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
214 return $res;
215 };
216 *encode = sub{
217 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
218 my $res = '';
219 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 220 $res .=
f2a2953c 221 chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
222 }
223 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
224 return $res;
225 };
6d1c0808 226 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 227 bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC";
6d1c0808 228 } else {
f2a2953c 229 package Encode::Internal;
10c5ecbb 230 push @Encode::Internal::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 231 *decode = sub{
232 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
233 utf8::upgrade($str);
234 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
235 return $str;
236 };
237 *encode = \&decode;
6d1c0808 238 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 239 bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal";
f2a2953c 240 }
241
242 {
243 # was in Encode::utf8
244 package Encode::utf8;
10c5ecbb 245 push @Encode::utf8::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 246 *decode = sub{
247 my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_;
248 my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
249 if (defined $str) {
250 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
251 return $str;
252 }
253 return undef;
254 };
255 *encode = sub {
256 my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
257 my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
258 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
259 return $octets;
260 };
b7a5c9de 261 $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
c731e18e 262 bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
f2a2953c 263 }
f2a2953c 264}
265
656753f8 2661;
267
2a936312 268__END__
269
4411f3b6 270=head1 NAME
271
272Encode - character encodings
273
274=head1 SYNOPSIS
275
276 use Encode;
277
67d7b5ef 278=head2 Table of Contents
279
0ab8f81e 280Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big
67d7b5ef 281to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs
6d1c0808 282and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details,
0ab8f81e 283see the PODs below:
67d7b5ef 284
285 Name Description
286 --------------------------------------------------------
6d1c0808 287 Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings
67d7b5ef 288 Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
289 Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings
290 Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings
291 Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
292 Encode::KR Korean Encodings
293 Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings
294 --------------------------------------------------------
295
4411f3b6 296=head1 DESCRIPTION
297
47bfe92f 298The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
67d7b5ef 299and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
300B<characters>.
301
302The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
303defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
304values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode
305codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
306the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
307of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
308
0ab8f81e 309Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
67d7b5ef 310often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in
311networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
312types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
0ab8f81e 313languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
67d7b5ef 314numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
315
0ab8f81e 316When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to
67d7b5ef 317process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
0ab8f81e 318byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
67d7b5ef 319"logical character".
320
321=head2 TERMINOLOGY
4411f3b6 322
7e19fb92 323=over 2
21938dfa 324
67d7b5ef 325=item *
326
327I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more).
328(What Perl's strings are made of.)
329
330=item *
331
332I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255
333(A special case of a Perl character.)
334
335=item *
336
337I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
0ab8f81e 338(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
67d7b5ef 339
340=back
4411f3b6 341
67d7b5ef 342=head1 PERL ENCODING API
4411f3b6 343
7e19fb92 344=over 2
4411f3b6 345
b7a5c9de 346=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 347
0ab8f81e 348Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
67d7b5ef 349a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
0ab8f81e 350an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
351For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
4411f3b6 352
b7a5c9de 353For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to
6d1c0808 354iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
681a7c68 355
b7a5c9de 356 $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);
7e19fb92 357
b7a5c9de 358B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets
359B<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
7e19fb92 360for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of
361the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
362string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
681a7c68 363
b7a5c9de 364=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 365
0ab8f81e 366Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
367internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
368ENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names
369and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see
47bfe92f 370L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
371
b7a5c9de 372For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format:
681a7c68 373
b7a5c9de 374 $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets);
681a7c68 375
b7a5c9de 376B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string
377B<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data,
378the utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of
7e19fb92 379ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
380below.
47bfe92f 381
b7a5c9de 382=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
7e19fb92 383
b7a5c9de 384Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets
385must be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal
386format. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250 encoding:
2b106fbe 387
b7a5c9de 388 from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250");
2b106fbe 389
390and to convert it back:
391
b7a5c9de 392 from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1");
4411f3b6 393
ab97ca19 394Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
0ab8f81e 395converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable.
ab97ca19 396
b7a5c9de 397from_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on success, undef
3ef515df 398otherwise.
399
b7a5c9de 400B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so;
7e19fb92 401
b7a5c9de 402 from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
7e19fb92 403 $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2
4411f3b6 404
b7a5c9de 405Both #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string
7e19fb92 406but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
f2a2953c 407
7e19fb92 408 $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
f2a2953c 409
7e19fb92 410See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
f2a2953c 411
412=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
413
7e19fb92 414Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters
b7a5c9de 415that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the
416result is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible
7e19fb92 417characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
418
f2a2953c 419
420=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]);
421
7e19fb92 422equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>.
b7a5c9de 423The sequence of octets represented by
7e19fb92 424$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical
425characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so
426it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see
427L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
f2a2953c 428
429=back
430
51ef4e11 431=head2 Listing available encodings
432
5129552c 433 use Encode;
434 @list = Encode->encodings();
435
436Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that
437are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the
438ones that are not loaded yet, say
439
440 @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
441
0ab8f81e 442Or you can give the name of a specific module.
5129552c 443
c731e18e 444 @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
445
446When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed.
51ef4e11 447
c731e18e 448 @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
5d030b67 449
0ab8f81e 450To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
5d030b67 451see L<Encode::Supported>.
51ef4e11 452
453=head2 Defining Aliases
454
0ab8f81e 455To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
67d7b5ef 456
5129552c 457 use Encode;
458 use Encode::Alias;
a63c962f 459 define_alias(newName => ENCODING);
51ef4e11 460
3ef515df 461After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING.
f2a2953c 462ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an
463I<encoding object>
51ef4e11 464
fcb875d4 465But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with
466C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof.
467i.e.
468
469 Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true
470 Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
471 Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
472
0ab8f81e 473resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
474exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
fcb875d4 475
0ab8f81e 476See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
51ef4e11 477
85982a32 478=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
4411f3b6 479
b7a5c9de 480If your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
0ab8f81e 481and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
482are totally identical in their functionality.
4411f3b6 483
85982a32 484 # via PerlIO
485 open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
486 open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 487 while(<$in>){ print $out $_; }
8e86646e 488
85982a32 489 # via from_to
0ab8f81e 490 open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
491 open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 492 while(<$in>){
0ab8f81e 493 from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
b7a5c9de 494 print $out $_;
85982a32 495 }
4411f3b6 496
b7a5c9de 497Unfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
0ab8f81e 498if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
499method.
500
501 Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
502 find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
503
504 use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
505 perlio_ok("euc-jp")
4411f3b6 506
0ab8f81e 507Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
b7a5c9de 508except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>.
4411f3b6 509
85982a32 510=head1 Handling Malformed Data
4411f3b6 511
7e19fb92 512=over 2
47bfe92f 513
0ab8f81e 514The I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it,
515the behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for
516I<CHECK>.
47bfe92f 517
85982a32 518=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
47bfe92f 519
0ab8f81e 520If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character>
521in place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings,
b7a5c9de 522E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, the code point C<0xFFFD> is used.
0ab8f81e 523If the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
524(category utf8) is given.
e9692b5b 525
7e19fb92 526=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
e9692b5b 527
b7a5c9de 528If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error
0ab8f81e 529message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the
530fatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error.
47bfe92f 531
85982a32 532=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
47bfe92f 533
85982a32 534If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
0ab8f81e 535return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when
536an error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with
537everything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data).
538This is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case
539where your source data may contain partial multi-byte character
540sequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width
541buffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this:
4411f3b6 542
b7a5c9de 543 my $data = ''; my $utf8 = '';
85982a32 544 while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){
0ab8f81e 545 # buffer may end in a partial character so we append
85982a32 546 $data .= $buffer;
547 $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, ENCODE::FB_QUIET);
0ab8f81e 548 # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character
85982a32 549 }
1768d7eb 550
85982a32 551=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
67d7b5ef 552
0ab8f81e 553This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when
554you are debugging the mode above.
85982a32 555
556=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ)
557
af1f55d9 558=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF)
559
560=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF)
561
85982a32 562For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
563Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
564
b7a5c9de 565When you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character,
566where I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
567decoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted,
568where I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
0ab8f81e 569in the character repertoire of the encoding.
85982a32 570
af1f55d9 571HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of
b7a5c9de 572C<\x{I<HHHH>}>, HTML uses C<&#I<NNNN>>; where I<NNNN> is a decimal digit and
573XML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>>; where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal digit.
af1f55d9 574
85982a32 575=item The bitmask
576
0ab8f81e 577These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX
578constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via
579C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask
580constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
85982a32 581
b0b300a3 582 FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
583 DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
584 WARN_ON_ER 0x0002 X
585 RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
586 LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
587 PERLQQ 0x0100 X
b7a5c9de 588 HTMLCREF 0x0200
589 XMLCREF 0x0400
67d7b5ef 590
0ab8f81e 591=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
67d7b5ef 592
0ab8f81e 593In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
f2a2953c 594function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided.
67d7b5ef 595
596=head1 Defining Encodings
597
598To define a new encoding, use:
599
b7a5c9de 600 use Encode qw(define_encoding);
67d7b5ef 601 define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
602
603I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
0ab8f81e 604should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
67d7b5ef 605If more than two arguments are provided then additional
b7a5c9de 606arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>.
67d7b5ef 607
f2a2953c 608See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
609
7e19fb92 610=head1 The UTF-8 flag
611
612Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator
b7a5c9de 613just compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with
614perl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration
615of I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page
616402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
7e19fb92 617
618=over 2
619
620=item Goal #1:
621
622Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old
623byte-oriented data they used to work on.
624
625=item Goal #2:
626
627Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new
628character-oriented data when appropriate.
629
630=item Goal #3:
631
632Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode
633as in the old byte-oriented mode.
634
635=item Goal #4:
636
637Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a
638byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.
639
640=back
641
642Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0
643was born and many features documented in the book remained
b7a5c9de 644unimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction
645of the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a
646byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8
7e19fb92 647flag on).
648
649Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
650
4bdf5738 651=over 2
7e19fb92 652
653=item *
654
655When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
656
657=item
658
b7a5c9de 659When you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can
7e19fb92 660unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
661dis-ambiguity.
662
b7a5c9de 663After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
7e19fb92 664
665 When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
666 ---------------------------------------------
667 In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF
668 In ISO-8859-1 ON
669 In any other Encoding ON
670 ---------------------------------------------
671
672As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
673Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
674careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
675
676This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same
677reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a
678string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek
679and poke these if you will. See the section below.
680
681=back
682
683=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals
4411f3b6 684
47bfe92f 685The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current
0ab8f81e 686implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change.
4411f3b6 687
7e19fb92 688=over 2
4411f3b6 689
a63c962f 690=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 691
0ab8f81e 692[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
47bfe92f 693If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed
694UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
4411f3b6 695
a63c962f 696=item _utf8_on(STRING)
4411f3b6 697
0ab8f81e 698[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
4411f3b6 699B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you
700B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous
0ab8f81e 701state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as
702indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
4411f3b6 703
a63c962f 704=item _utf8_off(STRING)
4411f3b6 705
0ab8f81e 706[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
707Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the
708return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
4411f3b6 709not a string.
710
711=back
712
713=head1 SEE ALSO
714
5d030b67 715L<Encode::Encoding>,
716L<Encode::Supported>,
6d1c0808 717L<Encode::PerlIO>,
5d030b67 718L<encoding>,
6d1c0808 719L<perlebcdic>,
720L<perlfunc/open>,
721L<perlunicode>,
722L<utf8>,
5d030b67 723the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt>
4411f3b6 724
85982a32 725=head1 MAINTAINER
aae85ceb 726
727This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained
7e19fb92 728by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full
729list of people involved. For any questions, use
b7a5c9de 730E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share.
aae85ceb 731
4411f3b6 732=cut