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10c5ecbb 1#
fa6f41cf 2# $Id: Encode.pm,v 1.86 2003/01/22 03:30:40 dankogai Exp $
10c5ecbb 3#
2c674647 4package Encode;
51ef4e11 5use strict;
fa6f41cf 6our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.86 $ =~ /\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($$;$)
4411f3b6 132{
e8c86ba6 133 my ($name, $string, $check) = @_;
0f7c507f 134 return undef unless defined $string;
b2704119 135 $check ||=0;
18586f54 136 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
10c5ecbb 137 unless(defined $enc){
138 require Carp;
139 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
140 }
18586f54 141 my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check);
142 return undef if ($check && length($string));
143 return $octets;
4411f3b6 144}
145
b2704119 146sub decode($$;$)
4411f3b6 147{
18586f54 148 my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_;
0f7c507f 149 return undef unless defined $octets;
b2704119 150 $check ||=0;
18586f54 151 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
10c5ecbb 152 unless(defined $enc){
153 require Carp;
154 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
155 }
18586f54 156 my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check);
157 $_[1] = $octets if $check;
158 return $string;
4411f3b6 159}
160
b2704119 161sub from_to($$$;$)
4411f3b6 162{
18586f54 163 my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_;
0f7c507f 164 return undef unless defined $string;
b2704119 165 $check ||=0;
18586f54 166 my $f = find_encoding($from);
10c5ecbb 167 unless (defined $f){
168 require Carp;
169 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$from'");
170 }
18586f54 171 my $t = find_encoding($to);
10c5ecbb 172 unless (defined $t){
173 require Carp;
174 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$to'");
175 }
18586f54 176 my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check);
177 return undef if ($check && length($string));
a999c27c 178 $string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
18586f54 179 return undef if ($check && length($uni));
3ef515df 180 return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ;
4411f3b6 181}
182
b2704119 183sub encode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 184{
18586f54 185 my ($str) = @_;
c731e18e 186 utf8::encode($str);
18586f54 187 return $str;
4411f3b6 188}
189
b2704119 190sub decode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 191{
18586f54 192 my ($str) = @_;
193 return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
194 return $str;
5ad8ef52 195}
196
b536bf57 197predefine_encodings(1);
f2a2953c 198
199#
200# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed;
201#
10c5ecbb 202
f2a2953c 203sub predefine_encodings{
10c5ecbb 204 use Encode::Encoding;
b536bf57 205 no warnings 'redefine';
206 my $use_xs = shift;
6d1c0808 207 if ($ON_EBCDIC) {
f2a2953c 208 # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC
209 package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC;
10c5ecbb 210 push @Encode::UTF_EBCDIC::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 211 *decode = sub{
212 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
213 my $res = '';
214 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 215 $res .=
f2a2953c 216 chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
217 }
218 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
219 return $res;
220 };
221 *encode = sub{
222 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
223 my $res = '';
224 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 225 $res .=
f2a2953c 226 chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
227 }
228 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
229 return $res;
230 };
6d1c0808 231 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 232 bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC";
6d1c0808 233 } else {
f2a2953c 234 package Encode::Internal;
10c5ecbb 235 push @Encode::Internal::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
f2a2953c 236 *decode = sub{
237 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
238 utf8::upgrade($str);
239 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
240 return $str;
241 };
242 *encode = \&decode;
6d1c0808 243 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 244 bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal";
f2a2953c 245 }
246
247 {
248 # was in Encode::utf8
249 package Encode::utf8;
10c5ecbb 250 push @Encode::utf8::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
b536bf57 251 #
252 if ($use_xs){
253 $DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS on";
254 *decode = \&decode_xs;
255 *encode = \&encode_xs;
256 }else{
257 $DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS off";
258 *decode = sub{
259 my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_;
260 my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
261 if (defined $str) {
262 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
263 return $str;
264 }
265 return undef;
266 };
267 *encode = sub {
268 my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
269 my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
270 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
271 return $octets;
272 };
273 }
b7a5c9de 274 $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
c731e18e 275 bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
f2a2953c 276 }
f2a2953c 277}
278
656753f8 2791;
280
2a936312 281__END__
282
4411f3b6 283=head1 NAME
284
285Encode - character encodings
286
287=head1 SYNOPSIS
288
289 use Encode;
290
67d7b5ef 291=head2 Table of Contents
292
0ab8f81e 293Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big
67d7b5ef 294to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs
6d1c0808 295and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details,
0ab8f81e 296see the PODs below:
67d7b5ef 297
298 Name Description
299 --------------------------------------------------------
6d1c0808 300 Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings
67d7b5ef 301 Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
302 Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings
303 Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings
304 Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
305 Encode::KR Korean Encodings
306 Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings
307 --------------------------------------------------------
308
4411f3b6 309=head1 DESCRIPTION
310
47bfe92f 311The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
67d7b5ef 312and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
313B<characters>.
314
315The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
316defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
317values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode
318codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
319the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
320of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
321
0ab8f81e 322Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
67d7b5ef 323often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in
324networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
325types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
0ab8f81e 326languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
67d7b5ef 327numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
328
0ab8f81e 329When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to
67d7b5ef 330process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
0ab8f81e 331byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
67d7b5ef 332"logical character".
333
334=head2 TERMINOLOGY
4411f3b6 335
7e19fb92 336=over 2
21938dfa 337
67d7b5ef 338=item *
339
340I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more).
341(What Perl's strings are made of.)
342
343=item *
344
345I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255
346(A special case of a Perl character.)
347
348=item *
349
350I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
0ab8f81e 351(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
67d7b5ef 352
353=back
4411f3b6 354
67d7b5ef 355=head1 PERL ENCODING API
4411f3b6 356
7e19fb92 357=over 2
4411f3b6 358
b7a5c9de 359=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 360
0ab8f81e 361Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
67d7b5ef 362a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
0ab8f81e 363an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
364For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
4411f3b6 365
b7a5c9de 366For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to
6d1c0808 367iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
681a7c68 368
b7a5c9de 369 $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);
7e19fb92 370
b7a5c9de 371B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets
372B<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
7e19fb92 373for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of
374the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
375string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
681a7c68 376
4089adc4 377encode($valid_encoding, undef) is harmless but warns you for
378C<Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry>.
379encode($valid_encoding, '') is harmless and warnless.
380
b7a5c9de 381=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 382
0ab8f81e 383Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
384internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
385ENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names
386and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see
47bfe92f 387L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
388
b7a5c9de 389For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format:
681a7c68 390
b7a5c9de 391 $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets);
681a7c68 392
b7a5c9de 393B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string
394B<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data,
395the utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of
7e19fb92 396ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
397below.
47bfe92f 398
4089adc4 399decode($valid_encoding, undef) is harmless but warns you for
400C<Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry>.
401decode($valid_encoding, '') is harmless and warnless.
402
b7a5c9de 403=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
7e19fb92 404
b7a5c9de 405Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets
406must be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal
407format. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250 encoding:
2b106fbe 408
b7a5c9de 409 from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250");
2b106fbe 410
411and to convert it back:
412
b7a5c9de 413 from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1");
4411f3b6 414
ab97ca19 415Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
0ab8f81e 416converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable.
ab97ca19 417
b7a5c9de 418from_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on success, undef
3ef515df 419otherwise.
420
b7a5c9de 421B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so;
7e19fb92 422
b7a5c9de 423 from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
7e19fb92 424 $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2
4411f3b6 425
b7a5c9de 426Both #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string
7e19fb92 427but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
f2a2953c 428
7e19fb92 429 $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
f2a2953c 430
7e19fb92 431See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
f2a2953c 432
433=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
434
7e19fb92 435Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters
b7a5c9de 436that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the
437result is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible
7e19fb92 438characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
439
f2a2953c 440
441=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]);
442
7e19fb92 443equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>.
b7a5c9de 444The sequence of octets represented by
7e19fb92 445$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical
446characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so
447it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see
448L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
f2a2953c 449
450=back
451
51ef4e11 452=head2 Listing available encodings
453
5129552c 454 use Encode;
455 @list = Encode->encodings();
456
457Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that
458are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the
459ones that are not loaded yet, say
460
461 @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
462
0ab8f81e 463Or you can give the name of a specific module.
5129552c 464
c731e18e 465 @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
466
467When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed.
51ef4e11 468
c731e18e 469 @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
5d030b67 470
0ab8f81e 471To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
5d030b67 472see L<Encode::Supported>.
51ef4e11 473
474=head2 Defining Aliases
475
0ab8f81e 476To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
67d7b5ef 477
5129552c 478 use Encode;
479 use Encode::Alias;
a63c962f 480 define_alias(newName => ENCODING);
51ef4e11 481
3ef515df 482After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING.
f2a2953c 483ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an
484I<encoding object>
51ef4e11 485
fcb875d4 486But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with
487C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof.
488i.e.
489
490 Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true
491 Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
492 Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
493
0ab8f81e 494resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
495exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
fcb875d4 496
0ab8f81e 497See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
51ef4e11 498
85982a32 499=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
4411f3b6 500
b7a5c9de 501If your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
0ab8f81e 502and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
503are totally identical in their functionality.
4411f3b6 504
85982a32 505 # via PerlIO
506 open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
507 open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 508 while(<$in>){ print $out $_; }
8e86646e 509
85982a32 510 # via from_to
0ab8f81e 511 open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
512 open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 513 while(<$in>){
0ab8f81e 514 from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
b7a5c9de 515 print $out $_;
85982a32 516 }
4411f3b6 517
b7a5c9de 518Unfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
0ab8f81e 519if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
520method.
521
522 Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
523 find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
524
525 use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
526 perlio_ok("euc-jp")
4411f3b6 527
0ab8f81e 528Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
b7a5c9de 529except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>.
4411f3b6 530
85982a32 531=head1 Handling Malformed Data
4411f3b6 532
7e19fb92 533=over 2
47bfe92f 534
0ab8f81e 535The I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it,
536the behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for
537I<CHECK>.
47bfe92f 538
85982a32 539=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
47bfe92f 540
0ab8f81e 541If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character>
542in place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings,
b7a5c9de 543E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, the code point C<0xFFFD> is used.
0ab8f81e 544If the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
545(category utf8) is given.
e9692b5b 546
7e19fb92 547=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
e9692b5b 548
b7a5c9de 549If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error
0ab8f81e 550message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the
551fatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error.
47bfe92f 552
85982a32 553=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
47bfe92f 554
85982a32 555If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
0ab8f81e 556return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when
557an error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with
558everything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data).
559This is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case
560where your source data may contain partial multi-byte character
561sequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width
562buffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this:
4411f3b6 563
b7a5c9de 564 my $data = ''; my $utf8 = '';
85982a32 565 while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){
0ab8f81e 566 # buffer may end in a partial character so we append
85982a32 567 $data .= $buffer;
ee269af2 568 $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, Encode::FB_QUIET);
0ab8f81e 569 # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character
85982a32 570 }
1768d7eb 571
85982a32 572=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
67d7b5ef 573
0ab8f81e 574This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when
575you are debugging the mode above.
85982a32 576
577=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ)
578
af1f55d9 579=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF)
580
581=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF)
582
85982a32 583For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
584Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
585
b7a5c9de 586When you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character,
587where I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
588decoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted,
589where I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
0ab8f81e 590in the character repertoire of the encoding.
85982a32 591
af1f55d9 592HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of
b7a5c9de 593C<\x{I<HHHH>}>, HTML uses C<&#I<NNNN>>; where I<NNNN> is a decimal digit and
594XML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>>; where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal digit.
af1f55d9 595
85982a32 596=item The bitmask
597
0ab8f81e 598These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX
599constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via
600C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask
601constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
85982a32 602
b0b300a3 603 FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
604 DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
4089adc4 605 WARN_ON_ERR 0x0002 X
b0b300a3 606 RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
607 LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
608 PERLQQ 0x0100 X
b7a5c9de 609 HTMLCREF 0x0200
610 XMLCREF 0x0400
67d7b5ef 611
0ab8f81e 612=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
67d7b5ef 613
0ab8f81e 614In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
f2a2953c 615function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided.
67d7b5ef 616
982a4085 617The fallback scheme does not work on EBCDIC platforms.
618
67d7b5ef 619=head1 Defining Encodings
620
621To define a new encoding, use:
622
b7a5c9de 623 use Encode qw(define_encoding);
67d7b5ef 624 define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
625
626I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
0ab8f81e 627should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
67d7b5ef 628If more than two arguments are provided then additional
b7a5c9de 629arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>.
67d7b5ef 630
f2a2953c 631See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
632
7e19fb92 633=head1 The UTF-8 flag
634
635Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator
b7a5c9de 636just compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with
637perl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration
638of I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page
639402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
7e19fb92 640
641=over 2
642
643=item Goal #1:
644
645Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old
646byte-oriented data they used to work on.
647
648=item Goal #2:
649
650Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new
651character-oriented data when appropriate.
652
653=item Goal #3:
654
655Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode
656as in the old byte-oriented mode.
657
658=item Goal #4:
659
660Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a
661byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.
662
663=back
664
665Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0
666was born and many features documented in the book remained
b7a5c9de 667unimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction
668of the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a
669byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8
7e19fb92 670flag on).
671
672Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
673
4bdf5738 674=over 2
7e19fb92 675
676=item *
677
678When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
679
680=item
681
b7a5c9de 682When you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can
7e19fb92 683unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
684dis-ambiguity.
685
b7a5c9de 686After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
7e19fb92 687
688 When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
689 ---------------------------------------------
690 In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF
691 In ISO-8859-1 ON
692 In any other Encoding ON
693 ---------------------------------------------
694
695As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
696Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
697careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
698
699This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same
700reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a
701string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek
702and poke these if you will. See the section below.
703
704=back
705
706=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals
4411f3b6 707
47bfe92f 708The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current
0ab8f81e 709implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change.
4411f3b6 710
7e19fb92 711=over 2
4411f3b6 712
a63c962f 713=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 714
0ab8f81e 715[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
47bfe92f 716If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed
717UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
4411f3b6 718
a63c962f 719=item _utf8_on(STRING)
4411f3b6 720
0ab8f81e 721[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
4411f3b6 722B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you
723B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous
0ab8f81e 724state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as
725indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
4411f3b6 726
a63c962f 727=item _utf8_off(STRING)
4411f3b6 728
0ab8f81e 729[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
730Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the
731return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
4411f3b6 732not a string.
733
734=back
735
736=head1 SEE ALSO
737
5d030b67 738L<Encode::Encoding>,
739L<Encode::Supported>,
6d1c0808 740L<Encode::PerlIO>,
5d030b67 741L<encoding>,
6d1c0808 742L<perlebcdic>,
743L<perlfunc/open>,
744L<perlunicode>,
745L<utf8>,
5d030b67 746the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt>
4411f3b6 747
85982a32 748=head1 MAINTAINER
aae85ceb 749
750This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained
7e19fb92 751by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full
752list of people involved. For any questions, use
b7a5c9de 753E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share.
aae85ceb 754
4411f3b6 755=cut