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1 | package Encode; |
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2 | use strict; |
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3 | our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 0.94 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; |
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4 | |
5 | require DynaLoader; |
6 | require Exporter; |
7 | |
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8 | our @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader); |
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9 | |
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10 | # Public, encouraged API is exported by default |
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11 | our @EXPORT = qw ( |
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12 | encode |
13 | decode |
14 | encode_utf8 |
15 | decode_utf8 |
16 | find_encoding |
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17 | encodings |
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18 | ); |
19 | |
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20 | our @EXPORT_OK = |
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21 | qw( |
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22 | define_encoding |
23 | define_alias |
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24 | from_to |
25 | is_utf8 |
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26 | is_8bit |
27 | is_16bit |
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28 | utf8_upgrade |
29 | utf8_downgrade |
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30 | _utf8_on |
31 | _utf8_off |
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32 | ); |
33 | |
34 | bootstrap Encode (); |
35 | |
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36 | # Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S |
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37 | |
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38 | use Carp; |
39 | |
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40 | # Make a %encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating |
41 | our %encoding; |
42 | my @alias; # ordered matching list |
43 | my %alias; # cached known aliases |
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44 | |
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45 | # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
46 | our @latin2iso_num = ( 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 ); |
47 | |
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48 | our %winlatin2cp = ( |
49 | 'Latin1' => 1252, |
50 | 'Latin2' => 1250, |
51 | 'Cyrillic' => 1251, |
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52 | 'Greek' => 1253, |
53 | 'Turkish' => 1254, |
54 | 'Hebrew' => 1255, |
55 | 'Arabic' => 1256, |
56 | 'Baltic' => 1257, |
57 | 'Vietnamese' => 1258, |
58 | ); |
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59 | |
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60 | our %external_tables = |
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61 | ( |
62 | 'euc-cn' => 'Encode/CN.pm', |
63 | gb2312 => 'Encode/CN.pm', |
64 | gb12345 => 'Encode/CN.pm', |
65 | gbk => 'Encode/CN.pm', |
66 | cp936 => 'Encode/CN.pm', |
67 | 'iso-ir-165' => 'Encode/CN.pm', |
68 | 'euc-jp' => 'Encode/JP.pm', |
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69 | 'iso-2022-jp' => 'Encode/JP.pm', |
70 | '7bit-jis' => 'Encode/JP.pm', |
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71 | shiftjis => 'Encode/JP.pm', |
72 | macjapan => 'Encode/JP.pm', |
73 | cp932 => 'Encode/JP.pm', |
74 | 'euc-kr' => 'Encode/KR.pm', |
75 | ksc5601 => 'Encode/KR.pm', |
76 | cp949 => 'Encode/KR.pm', |
77 | big5 => 'Encode/TW.pm', |
78 | 'big5-hkscs' => 'Encode/TW.pm', |
79 | cp950 => 'Encode/TW.pm', |
80 | gb18030 => 'Encode/HanExtra.pm', |
81 | big5plus => 'Encode/HanExtra.pm', |
82 | 'euc-tw' => 'Encode/HanExtra.pm', |
83 | ); |
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84 | |
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85 | sub encodings |
86 | { |
87 | my ($class) = @_; |
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88 | return |
89 | map { $_->[0] } |
90 | sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } |
91 | map { [$_, lc $_] } |
92 | grep { $_ ne 'Internal' } |
93 | keys %encoding; |
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94 | } |
95 | |
96 | sub findAlias |
97 | { |
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98 | my $class = shift; |
99 | local $_ = shift; |
100 | # print "# findAlias $_\n"; |
101 | unless (exists $alias{$_}) |
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102 | { |
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103 | for (my $i=0; $i < @alias; $i += 2) |
104 | { |
105 | my $alias = $alias[$i]; |
106 | my $val = $alias[$i+1]; |
107 | my $new; |
108 | if (ref($alias) eq 'Regexp' && $_ =~ $alias) |
109 | { |
110 | $new = eval $val; |
111 | } |
112 | elsif (ref($alias) eq 'CODE') |
113 | { |
114 | $new = &{$alias}($val) |
115 | } |
116 | elsif (lc($_) eq lc($alias)) |
117 | { |
118 | $new = $val; |
119 | } |
120 | if (defined($new)) |
121 | { |
122 | next if $new eq $_; # avoid (direct) recursion on bugs |
123 | my $enc = (ref($new)) ? $new : find_encoding($new); |
124 | if ($enc) |
125 | { |
126 | $alias{$_} = $enc; |
127 | last; |
128 | } |
129 | } |
130 | } |
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131 | } |
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132 | return $alias{$_}; |
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133 | } |
134 | |
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135 | sub define_alias |
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136 | { |
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137 | while (@_) |
138 | { |
139 | my ($alias,$name) = splice(@_,0,2); |
140 | push(@alias, $alias => $name); |
141 | } |
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142 | } |
143 | |
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144 | # Allow variants of iso-8859-1 etc. |
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145 | define_alias( qr/^iso[-_]?(\d+)[-_](\d+)$/i => '"iso-$1-$2"' ); |
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146 | |
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147 | # At least HP-UX has these. |
148 | define_alias( qr/^iso8859(\d+)$/i => '"iso-8859-$1"' ); |
149 | |
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150 | # More HP stuff. |
151 | define_alias( qr/^(?:hp-)?(arabic|greek|hebrew|kana|roman|thai|turkish)8$/i => '"${1}8"' ); |
152 | |
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153 | # The Official name of ASCII. |
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154 | define_alias( qr/^ANSI[-_]?X3\.4[-_]?1968$/i => '"ascii"' ); |
155 | |
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156 | # This is a font issue, not an encoding issue. |
157 | # (The currency symbol of the Latin 1 upper half |
158 | # has been redefined as the euro symbol.) |
159 | define_alias( qr/^(.+)\@euro$/i => '"$1"' ); |
160 | |
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161 | # Allow latin-1 style names as well |
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162 | define_alias( qr/^(?:iso[-_]?)?latin[-_]?(\d+)$/i => '"iso-8859-$latin2iso_num[$1]"' ); |
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163 | |
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164 | # Allow winlatin1 style names as well |
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165 | define_alias( qr/^win(latin[12]|cyrillic|baltic|greek|turkish|hebrew|arabic|baltic|vietnamese)$/i => '"cp$winlatin2cp{\u$1}"' ); |
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166 | |
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167 | # Common names for non-latin prefered MIME names |
168 | define_alias( 'ascii' => 'US-ascii', |
169 | 'cyrillic' => 'iso-8859-5', |
170 | 'arabic' => 'iso-8859-6', |
171 | 'greek' => 'iso-8859-7', |
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172 | 'hebrew' => 'iso-8859-8', |
173 | 'thai' => 'iso-8859-11', |
174 | 'tis620' => 'iso-8859-11', |
175 | ); |
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176 | |
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177 | # At least AIX has IBM-NNN (surprisingly...) instead of cpNNN. |
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178 | # And Microsoft has their own naming (again, surprisingly). |
179 | define_alias( qr/^(?:ibm|ms)[-_]?(\d\d\d\d?)$/i => '"cp$1"'); |
180 | |
181 | # Sometimes seen with a leading zero. |
182 | define_alias( qr/^cp037$/i => '"cp37"'); |
183 | |
184 | # Ououououou. |
185 | define_alias( qr/^macRomanian$/i => '"macRumanian"'); |
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186 | |
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187 | # Standardize on the dashed versions. |
188 | define_alias( qr/^utf8$/i => 'utf-8' ); |
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189 | define_alias( qr/^koi8r$/i => 'koi8-r' ); |
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190 | define_alias( qr/^koi8u$/i => 'koi8-u' ); |
191 | |
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192 | # Seen in some Linuxes. |
193 | define_alias( qr/^ujis$/i => 'euc-jp' ); |
194 | |
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195 | # CP936 doesn't have vendor-addon for GBK, so they're identical. |
196 | define_alias( qr/^gbk$/i => '"cp936"'); |
197 | |
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198 | # TODO: HP-UX '8' encodings arabic8 greek8 hebrew8 kana8 thai8 turkish8 |
199 | # TODO: HP-UX '15' encodings japanese15 korean15 roi15 |
200 | # TODO: Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111 (useful?) |
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201 | # TODO: Armenian encoding ARMSCII-8 |
202 | # TODO: Hebrew encoding ISO-8859-8-1 |
203 | # TODO: Thai encoding TCVN |
204 | # TODO: Korean encoding Johab |
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205 | # TODO: Vietnamese encodings VPS |
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206 | # TODO: Mac Asian+African encodings: Arabic Armenian Bengali Burmese |
207 | # ChineseSimp ChineseTrad Devanagari Ethiopic ExtArabic |
208 | # Farsi Georgian Gujarati Gurmukhi Hebrew Japanese |
209 | # Kannada Khmer Korean Laotian Malayalam Mongolian |
210 | # Oriya Sinhalese Symbol Tamil Telugu Tibetan Vietnamese |
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211 | |
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212 | # Map white space and _ to '-' |
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213 | define_alias( qr/^(\S+)[\s_]+(.*)$/i => '"$1-$2"' ); |
214 | |
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215 | sub define_encoding |
216 | { |
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217 | my $obj = shift; |
218 | my $name = shift; |
219 | $encoding{$name} = $obj; |
220 | my $lc = lc($name); |
221 | define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name; |
222 | while (@_) |
223 | { |
224 | my $alias = shift; |
225 | define_alias($alias,$obj); |
226 | } |
227 | return $obj; |
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228 | } |
229 | |
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230 | sub getEncoding |
231 | { |
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232 | my ($class,$name,$skip_external) = @_; |
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233 | my $enc; |
234 | if (ref($name) && $name->can('new_sequence')) |
235 | { |
236 | return $name; |
237 | } |
238 | my $lc = lc $name; |
239 | if (exists $encoding{$name}) |
240 | { |
241 | return $encoding{$name}; |
242 | } |
243 | if (exists $encoding{$lc}) |
244 | { |
245 | return $encoding{$lc}; |
246 | } |
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247 | |
248 | my $oc = $class->findAlias($name); |
249 | return $oc if defined $oc; |
250 | |
251 | $oc = $class->findAlias($lc) if $lc ne $name; |
252 | return $oc if defined $oc; |
253 | |
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254 | if (!$skip_external and exists $external_tables{$lc}) |
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255 | { |
256 | require $external_tables{$lc}; |
257 | return $encoding{$name} if exists $encoding{$name}; |
258 | } |
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259 | |
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260 | return; |
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261 | } |
262 | |
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263 | sub find_encoding |
264 | { |
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265 | my ($name,$skip_external) = @_; |
266 | return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external); |
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267 | } |
268 | |
269 | sub encode |
270 | { |
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271 | my ($name,$string,$check) = @_; |
272 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
273 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; |
274 | my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check); |
275 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); |
276 | return $octets; |
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277 | } |
278 | |
279 | sub decode |
280 | { |
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281 | my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_; |
282 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
283 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; |
284 | my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check); |
285 | $_[1] = $octets if $check; |
286 | return $string; |
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287 | } |
288 | |
289 | sub from_to |
290 | { |
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291 | my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_; |
292 | my $f = find_encoding($from); |
293 | croak("Unknown encoding '$from'") unless defined $f; |
294 | my $t = find_encoding($to); |
295 | croak("Unknown encoding '$to'") unless defined $t; |
296 | my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check); |
297 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); |
298 | $string = $t->encode($uni,$check); |
299 | return undef if ($check && length($uni)); |
300 | return length($_[0] = $string); |
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301 | } |
302 | |
303 | sub encode_utf8 |
304 | { |
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305 | my ($str) = @_; |
306 | utf8::encode($str); |
307 | return $str; |
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308 | } |
309 | |
310 | sub decode_utf8 |
311 | { |
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312 | my ($str) = @_; |
313 | return undef unless utf8::decode($str); |
314 | return $str; |
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315 | } |
316 | |
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317 | require Encode::Encoding; |
318 | require Encode::XS; |
319 | require Encode::Internal; |
320 | require Encode::Unicode; |
321 | require Encode::utf8; |
322 | require Encode::iso10646_1; |
323 | require Encode::ucs2_le; |
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324 | |
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325 | 1; |
326 | |
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327 | __END__ |
328 | |
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329 | =head1 NAME |
330 | |
331 | Encode - character encodings |
332 | |
333 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
334 | |
335 | use Encode; |
336 | |
337 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
338 | |
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339 | The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings |
340 | and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of B<characters>. |
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341 | |
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342 | To find more about character encodings, please consult |
343 | L<Encode::Description> . This document focuses on programming references. |
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344 | |
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345 | =head1 PERL ENCODING API |
346 | |
347 | =head2 Generic Encoding Interface |
348 | |
349 | =over 4 |
350 | |
351 | =item * |
352 | |
353 | $bytes = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK]) |
354 | |
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355 | Encodes string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns |
356 | a sequence of octets. For CHECK see L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
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357 | |
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358 | For example to convert (internally UTF-8 encoded) Unicode data |
359 | to octets: |
360 | |
361 | $octets = encode("utf8", $unicode); |
362 | |
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363 | =item * |
364 | |
365 | $string = decode(ENCODING, $bytes[, CHECK]) |
366 | |
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367 | Decode sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's |
368 | internal form and returns the resulting string. For CHECK see |
369 | L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
370 | |
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371 | For example to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8: |
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372 | |
373 | $utf8 = decode("latin1", $latin1); |
374 | |
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375 | =item * |
376 | |
377 | from_to($string, FROM_ENCODING, TO_ENCODING[, CHECK]) |
378 | |
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379 | Convert B<in-place> the data between two encodings. How did the data |
380 | in $string originally get to be in FROM_ENCODING? Either using |
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381 | encode() or through PerlIO: See L</"Encoding and IO">. For CHECK |
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382 | see L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
383 | |
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384 | For example to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8: |
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385 | |
386 | from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf-8"); |
387 | |
388 | and to convert it back: |
389 | |
390 | from_to($data, "utf-8", "iso-8859-1"); |
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391 | |
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392 | Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be |
393 | converted cannot be a string constant, it must be a scalar variable. |
394 | |
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395 | =back |
396 | |
397 | =head2 Handling Malformed Data |
398 | |
399 | If CHECK is not set, C<undef> is returned. If the data is supposed to |
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400 | be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning (category utf8) is given. If |
401 | CHECK is true but not a code reference, dies. |
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402 | |
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403 | It would desirable to have a way to indicate that transform should use |
404 | the encodings "replacement character" - no such mechanism is defined yet. |
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405 | |
406 | It is also planned to allow I<CHECK> to be a code reference. |
407 | |
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408 | This is not yet implemented as there are design issues with what its |
409 | arguments should be and how it returns its results. |
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410 | |
411 | =over 4 |
412 | |
413 | =item Scheme 1 |
414 | |
415 | Passed remaining fragment of string being processed. |
416 | Modifies it in place to remove bytes/characters it can understand |
417 | and returns a string used to represent them. |
418 | e.g. |
419 | |
420 | sub fixup { |
421 | my $ch = substr($_[0],0,1,''); |
422 | return sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch); |
423 | } |
424 | |
425 | This scheme is close to how underlying C code for Encode works, but gives |
426 | the fixup routine very little context. |
427 | |
428 | =item Scheme 2 |
429 | |
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430 | Passed original string, and an index into it of the problem area, and |
431 | output string so far. Appends what it will to output string and |
432 | returns new index into original string. For example: |
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433 | |
434 | sub fixup { |
435 | # my ($s,$i,$d) = @_; |
436 | my $ch = substr($_[0],$_[1],1); |
437 | $_[2] .= sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch); |
438 | return $_[1]+1; |
439 | } |
440 | |
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441 | This scheme gives maximal control to the fixup routine but is more |
442 | complicated to code, and may need internals of Encode to be tweaked to |
443 | keep original string intact. |
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444 | |
445 | =item Other Schemes |
446 | |
447 | Hybrids of above. |
448 | |
449 | Multiple return values rather than in-place modifications. |
450 | |
451 | Index into the string could be pos($str) allowing s/\G...//. |
452 | |
453 | =back |
454 | |
455 | =head2 UTF-8 / utf8 |
456 | |
457 | The Unicode consortium defines the UTF-8 standard as a way of encoding |
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458 | the entire Unicode repertiore as sequences of octets. This encoding is |
459 | expected to become very widespread. Perl can use this form internaly |
460 | to represent strings, so conversions to and from this form are |
461 | particularly efficient (as octets in memory do not have to change, |
462 | just the meta-data that tells Perl how to treat them). |
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463 | |
464 | =over 4 |
465 | |
466 | =item * |
467 | |
468 | $bytes = encode_utf8($string); |
469 | |
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470 | The characters that comprise string are encoded in Perl's superset of UTF-8 |
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471 | and the resulting octets returned as a sequence of bytes. All possible |
472 | characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail. |
473 | |
474 | =item * |
475 | |
476 | $string = decode_utf8($bytes [,CHECK]); |
477 | |
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478 | The sequence of octets represented by $bytes is decoded from UTF-8 |
479 | into a sequence of logical characters. Not all sequences of octets |
480 | form valid UTF-8 encodings, so it is possible for this call to fail. |
481 | For CHECK see L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
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482 | |
483 | =back |
484 | |
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485 | =head2 Listing available encodings |
486 | |
487 | use Encode qw(encodings); |
488 | @list = encodings(); |
489 | |
490 | Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings. |
491 | |
492 | =head2 Defining Aliases |
493 | |
494 | use Encode qw(define_alias); |
495 | define_alias( newName => ENCODING); |
496 | |
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497 | Allows newName to be used as am alias for ENCODING. ENCODING may be |
498 | either the name of an encoding or and encoding object (as above). |
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499 | |
500 | Currently I<newName> can be specified in the following ways: |
501 | |
502 | =over 4 |
503 | |
504 | =item As a simple string. |
505 | |
506 | =item As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.: |
507 | |
508 | define_alias( qr/^iso8859-(\d+)$/i => '"iso-8859-$1"' ); |
509 | |
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510 | In this case if I<ENCODING> is not a reference it is C<eval>-ed to |
511 | allow C<$1> etc. to be subsituted. The example is one way to names as |
512 | used in X11 font names to alias the MIME names for the iso-8859-* |
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513 | family. Note the double quote inside the single quote. If you are |
514 | using regex here, you have to do so or it won't work in this case. |
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515 | |
516 | =item As a code reference, e.g.: |
517 | |
518 | define_alias( sub { return /^iso8859-(\d+)$/i ? "iso-8859-$1" : undef } , ''); |
519 | |
520 | In this case C<$_> will be set to the name that is being looked up and |
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521 | I<ENCODING> is passed to the sub as its first argument. The example |
522 | is another way to names as used in X11 font names to alias the MIME |
523 | names for the iso-8859-* family. |
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524 | |
525 | =back |
526 | |
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527 | =head1 Defining Encodings |
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528 | |
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529 | use Encode qw(define_alias); |
530 | define_encoding( $object, 'canonicalName' [,alias...]); |
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531 | |
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532 | Causes I<canonicalName> to be associated with I<$object>. The object |
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533 | should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding> |
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534 | below. If more than two arguments are provided then additional |
535 | arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object> as for C<define_alias>. |
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536 | |
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537 | =head1 Encoding and IO |
538 | |
539 | It is very common to want to do encoding transformations when |
540 | reading or writing files, network connections, pipes etc. |
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541 | If Perl is configured to use the new 'perlio' IO system then |
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542 | C<Encode> provides a "layer" (See L<perliol>) which can transform |
543 | data as it is read or written. |
544 | |
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545 | Here is how the blind poet would modernise the encoding: |
546 | |
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547 | use Encode; |
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548 | open(my $iliad,'<:encoding(iso-8859-7)','iliad.greek'); |
549 | open(my $utf8,'>:utf8','iliad.utf8'); |
550 | my @epic = <$iliad>; |
551 | print $utf8 @epic; |
552 | close($utf8); |
553 | close($illiad); |
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554 | |
555 | In addition the new IO system can also be configured to read/write |
556 | UTF-8 encoded characters (as noted above this is efficient): |
557 | |
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558 | open(my $fh,'>:utf8','anything'); |
559 | print $fh "Any \x{0021} string \N{SMILEY FACE}\n"; |
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560 | |
561 | Either of the above forms of "layer" specifications can be made the default |
562 | for a lexical scope with the C<use open ...> pragma. See L<open>. |
563 | |
564 | Once a handle is open is layers can be altered using C<binmode>. |
565 | |
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566 | Without any such configuration, or if Perl itself is built using |
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567 | system's own IO, then write operations assume that file handle accepts |
568 | only I<bytes> and will C<die> if a character larger than 255 is |
569 | written to the handle. When reading, each octet from the handle |
570 | becomes a byte-in-a-character. Note that this default is the same |
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571 | behaviour as bytes-only languages (including Perl before v5.6) would |
572 | have, and is sufficient to handle native 8-bit encodings |
573 | e.g. iso-8859-1, EBCDIC etc. and any legacy mechanisms for handling |
574 | other encodings and binary data. |
575 | |
576 | In other cases it is the programs responsibility to transform |
577 | characters into bytes using the API above before doing writes, and to |
578 | transform the bytes read from a handle into characters before doing |
579 | "character operations" (e.g. C<lc>, C</\W+/>, ...). |
580 | |
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581 | You can also use PerlIO to convert larger amounts of data you don't |
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582 | want to bring into memory. For example to convert between ISO-8859-1 |
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583 | (Latin 1) and UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC machines): |
584 | |
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585 | open(F, "<:encoding(iso-8859-1)", "data.txt") or die $!; |
586 | open(G, ">:utf8", "data.utf") or die $!; |
587 | while (<F>) { print G } |
588 | |
589 | # Could also do "print G <F>" but that would pull |
590 | # the whole file into memory just to write it out again. |
591 | |
592 | More examples: |
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593 | |
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594 | open(my $f, "<:encoding(cp1252)") |
595 | open(my $g, ">:encoding(iso-8859-2)") |
596 | open(my $h, ">:encoding(latin9)") # iso-8859-15 |
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597 | |
598 | See L<PerlIO> for more information. |
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599 | |
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600 | See also L<encoding> for how to change the default encoding of the |
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601 | data in your script. |
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602 | |
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603 | =head1 Messing with Perl's Internals |
604 | |
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605 | The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current |
606 | implementation. As such they are efficient, but may change. |
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607 | |
608 | =over 4 |
609 | |
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610 | =item * is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]) |
611 | |
612 | [INTERNAL] Test whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING. |
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613 | If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed |
614 | UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. |
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615 | |
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616 | =item * |
617 | |
618 | _utf8_on(STRING) |
619 | |
620 | [INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is |
621 | B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you |
622 | B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous |
623 | state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the return value as |
624 | I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string. |
625 | |
626 | =item * |
627 | |
628 | _utf8_off(STRING) |
629 | |
630 | [INTERNAL] Turn off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously. |
631 | Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the |
632 | return value as I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is |
633 | not a string. |
634 | |
635 | =back |
636 | |
637 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
638 | |
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639 | L<perlunicode>, L<perlebcdic>, L<perlfunc/open>, L<PerlIO>, L<encoding>, |
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640 | L<utf8>, L<Encode::Description>, L<Encode::Encoding> the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> |
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641 | |
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642 | |
643 | =cut |
644 | |