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10c5ecbb 1#
03871ea6 2# $Id: Encode.pm,v 1.95 2003/05/21 08:40:59 dankogai Exp $
10c5ecbb 3#
2c674647 4package Encode;
51ef4e11 5use strict;
03871ea6 6our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.95 $ =~ /\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 }
220e2d4e 274 *cat_decode = sub{ # ($obj, $dst, $src, $pos, $trm, $chk)
275 my ($obj, undef, undef, $pos, $trm) = @_; # currently ignores $chk
276 my ($rdst, $rsrc, $rpos) = \@_[1,2,3];
277 use bytes;
278 if ((my $npos = index($$rsrc, $trm, $pos)) >= 0) {
279 $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos, $npos - $pos + length($trm));
280 $$rpos = $npos + length($trm);
281 return 1;
282 }
283 $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos);
284 $$rpos = length($$rsrc);
285 return '';
286 };
b7a5c9de 287 $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
c731e18e 288 bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
f2a2953c 289 }
f2a2953c 290}
291
656753f8 2921;
293
2a936312 294__END__
295
4411f3b6 296=head1 NAME
297
298Encode - character encodings
299
300=head1 SYNOPSIS
301
302 use Encode;
303
67d7b5ef 304=head2 Table of Contents
305
0ab8f81e 306Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big
67d7b5ef 307to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs
6d1c0808 308and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details,
0ab8f81e 309see the PODs below:
67d7b5ef 310
311 Name Description
312 --------------------------------------------------------
6d1c0808 313 Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings
67d7b5ef 314 Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
315 Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings
316 Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings
317 Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
318 Encode::KR Korean Encodings
319 Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings
320 --------------------------------------------------------
321
4411f3b6 322=head1 DESCRIPTION
323
47bfe92f 324The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
67d7b5ef 325and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
326B<characters>.
327
328The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
329defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
330values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode
331codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
332the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
333of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
334
0ab8f81e 335Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
67d7b5ef 336often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in
337networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
338types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
0ab8f81e 339languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
67d7b5ef 340numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
341
0ab8f81e 342When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to
67d7b5ef 343process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
0ab8f81e 344byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
67d7b5ef 345"logical character".
346
347=head2 TERMINOLOGY
4411f3b6 348
7e19fb92 349=over 2
21938dfa 350
67d7b5ef 351=item *
352
353I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more).
354(What Perl's strings are made of.)
355
356=item *
357
358I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255
359(A special case of a Perl character.)
360
361=item *
362
363I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
0ab8f81e 364(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
67d7b5ef 365
366=back
4411f3b6 367
67d7b5ef 368=head1 PERL ENCODING API
4411f3b6 369
7e19fb92 370=over 2
4411f3b6 371
b7a5c9de 372=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 373
0ab8f81e 374Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
67d7b5ef 375a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
0ab8f81e 376an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
377For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
4411f3b6 378
b7a5c9de 379For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to
6d1c0808 380iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
681a7c68 381
b7a5c9de 382 $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);
7e19fb92 383
b7a5c9de 384B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets
385B<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
7e19fb92 386for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of
387the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
388string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
681a7c68 389
4089adc4 390encode($valid_encoding, undef) is harmless but warns you for
391C<Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry>.
392encode($valid_encoding, '') is harmless and warnless.
393
b7a5c9de 394=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 395
0ab8f81e 396Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
397internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
398ENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names
399and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see
47bfe92f 400L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
401
b7a5c9de 402For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format:
681a7c68 403
b7a5c9de 404 $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets);
681a7c68 405
b7a5c9de 406B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string
407B<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data,
408the utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of
7e19fb92 409ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
410below.
47bfe92f 411
4089adc4 412decode($valid_encoding, undef) is harmless but warns you for
413C<Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry>.
414decode($valid_encoding, '') is harmless and warnless.
415
b7a5c9de 416=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
7e19fb92 417
b7a5c9de 418Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets
419must be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal
420format. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250 encoding:
2b106fbe 421
b7a5c9de 422 from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250");
2b106fbe 423
424and to convert it back:
425
b7a5c9de 426 from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1");
4411f3b6 427
ab97ca19 428Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
0ab8f81e 429converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable.
ab97ca19 430
b7a5c9de 431from_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on success, undef
3ef515df 432otherwise.
433
b7a5c9de 434B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so;
7e19fb92 435
b7a5c9de 436 from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
7e19fb92 437 $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2
4411f3b6 438
b7a5c9de 439Both #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string
7e19fb92 440but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
f2a2953c 441
7e19fb92 442 $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
f2a2953c 443
7e19fb92 444See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
f2a2953c 445
446=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
447
7e19fb92 448Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters
b7a5c9de 449that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the
450result is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible
7e19fb92 451characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
452
f2a2953c 453
454=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]);
455
7e19fb92 456equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>.
b7a5c9de 457The sequence of octets represented by
7e19fb92 458$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical
459characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so
460it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see
461L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
f2a2953c 462
463=back
464
51ef4e11 465=head2 Listing available encodings
466
5129552c 467 use Encode;
468 @list = Encode->encodings();
469
470Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that
471are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the
472ones that are not loaded yet, say
473
474 @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
475
0ab8f81e 476Or you can give the name of a specific module.
5129552c 477
c731e18e 478 @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
479
480When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed.
51ef4e11 481
c731e18e 482 @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
5d030b67 483
0ab8f81e 484To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
5d030b67 485see L<Encode::Supported>.
51ef4e11 486
487=head2 Defining Aliases
488
0ab8f81e 489To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
67d7b5ef 490
5129552c 491 use Encode;
492 use Encode::Alias;
a63c962f 493 define_alias(newName => ENCODING);
51ef4e11 494
3ef515df 495After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING.
f2a2953c 496ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an
497I<encoding object>
51ef4e11 498
fcb875d4 499But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with
500C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof.
501i.e.
502
503 Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true
504 Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
505 Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
506
0ab8f81e 507resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
508exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
fcb875d4 509
0ab8f81e 510See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
51ef4e11 511
85982a32 512=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
4411f3b6 513
b7a5c9de 514If your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
0ab8f81e 515and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
516are totally identical in their functionality.
4411f3b6 517
85982a32 518 # via PerlIO
519 open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
520 open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 521 while(<$in>){ print $out $_; }
8e86646e 522
85982a32 523 # via from_to
0ab8f81e 524 open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
525 open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 526 while(<$in>){
0ab8f81e 527 from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
b7a5c9de 528 print $out $_;
85982a32 529 }
4411f3b6 530
b7a5c9de 531Unfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
0ab8f81e 532if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
533method.
534
535 Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
536 find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
537
538 use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
539 perlio_ok("euc-jp")
4411f3b6 540
0ab8f81e 541Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
b7a5c9de 542except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>.
4411f3b6 543
85982a32 544=head1 Handling Malformed Data
4411f3b6 545
0ab8f81e 546The I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it,
547the behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for
548I<CHECK>.
47bfe92f 549
151b5d36 550=over 2
551
85982a32 552=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
47bfe92f 553
0ab8f81e 554If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character>
555in place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings,
b7a5c9de 556E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, the code point C<0xFFFD> is used.
0ab8f81e 557If the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
558(category utf8) is given.
e9692b5b 559
7e19fb92 560=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
e9692b5b 561
b7a5c9de 562If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error
0ab8f81e 563message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the
564fatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error.
47bfe92f 565
85982a32 566=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
47bfe92f 567
85982a32 568If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
0ab8f81e 569return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when
570an error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with
571everything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data).
572This is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case
573where your source data may contain partial multi-byte character
574sequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width
575buffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this:
4411f3b6 576
b7a5c9de 577 my $data = ''; my $utf8 = '';
85982a32 578 while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){
0ab8f81e 579 # buffer may end in a partial character so we append
85982a32 580 $data .= $buffer;
ee269af2 581 $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, Encode::FB_QUIET);
0ab8f81e 582 # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character
85982a32 583 }
1768d7eb 584
85982a32 585=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
67d7b5ef 586
0ab8f81e 587This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when
588you are debugging the mode above.
85982a32 589
590=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ)
591
af1f55d9 592=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF)
593
594=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF)
595
85982a32 596For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
597Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
598
b7a5c9de 599When you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character,
600where I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
601decoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted,
602where I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
0ab8f81e 603in the character repertoire of the encoding.
85982a32 604
af1f55d9 605HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of
b7a5c9de 606C<\x{I<HHHH>}>, HTML uses C<&#I<NNNN>>; where I<NNNN> is a decimal digit and
607XML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>>; where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal digit.
af1f55d9 608
85982a32 609=item The bitmask
610
0ab8f81e 611These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX
612constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via
613C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask
614constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
85982a32 615
b0b300a3 616 FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
617 DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
4089adc4 618 WARN_ON_ERR 0x0002 X
b0b300a3 619 RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
620 LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
621 PERLQQ 0x0100 X
b7a5c9de 622 HTMLCREF 0x0200
623 XMLCREF 0x0400
67d7b5ef 624
151b5d36 625=back
626
0ab8f81e 627=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
67d7b5ef 628
0ab8f81e 629In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
f2a2953c 630function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided.
67d7b5ef 631
982a4085 632The fallback scheme does not work on EBCDIC platforms.
633
67d7b5ef 634=head1 Defining Encodings
635
636To define a new encoding, use:
637
b7a5c9de 638 use Encode qw(define_encoding);
67d7b5ef 639 define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
640
641I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
0ab8f81e 642should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
67d7b5ef 643If more than two arguments are provided then additional
b7a5c9de 644arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>.
67d7b5ef 645
f2a2953c 646See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
647
7e19fb92 648=head1 The UTF-8 flag
649
650Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator
b7a5c9de 651just compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with
652perl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration
653of I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page
654402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
7e19fb92 655
656=over 2
657
658=item Goal #1:
659
660Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old
661byte-oriented data they used to work on.
662
663=item Goal #2:
664
665Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new
666character-oriented data when appropriate.
667
668=item Goal #3:
669
670Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode
671as in the old byte-oriented mode.
672
673=item Goal #4:
674
675Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a
676byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.
677
678=back
679
680Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0
681was born and many features documented in the book remained
b7a5c9de 682unimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction
683of the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a
684byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8
7e19fb92 685flag on).
686
687Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
688
4bdf5738 689=over 2
7e19fb92 690
691=item *
692
693When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
694
151b5d36 695=item *
7e19fb92 696
b7a5c9de 697When you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can
7e19fb92 698unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
699dis-ambiguity.
700
b7a5c9de 701After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
7e19fb92 702
703 When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
704 ---------------------------------------------
705 In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF
706 In ISO-8859-1 ON
707 In any other Encoding ON
708 ---------------------------------------------
709
710As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
711Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
712careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
713
714This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same
715reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a
716string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek
717and poke these if you will. See the section below.
718
719=back
720
721=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals
4411f3b6 722
47bfe92f 723The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current
0ab8f81e 724implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change.
4411f3b6 725
7e19fb92 726=over 2
4411f3b6 727
a63c962f 728=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 729
0ab8f81e 730[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
47bfe92f 731If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed
732UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
4411f3b6 733
a63c962f 734=item _utf8_on(STRING)
4411f3b6 735
0ab8f81e 736[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
4411f3b6 737B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you
738B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous
0ab8f81e 739state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as
740indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
4411f3b6 741
a63c962f 742=item _utf8_off(STRING)
4411f3b6 743
0ab8f81e 744[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
745Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the
746return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
4411f3b6 747not a string.
748
749=back
750
751=head1 SEE ALSO
752
5d030b67 753L<Encode::Encoding>,
754L<Encode::Supported>,
6d1c0808 755L<Encode::PerlIO>,
5d030b67 756L<encoding>,
6d1c0808 757L<perlebcdic>,
758L<perlfunc/open>,
759L<perlunicode>,
760L<utf8>,
5d030b67 761the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt>
4411f3b6 762
85982a32 763=head1 MAINTAINER
aae85ceb 764
765This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained
7e19fb92 766by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full
767list of people involved. For any questions, use
b7a5c9de 768E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share.
aae85ceb 769
4411f3b6 770=cut