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656ebd29 1# $Id: encoding.pm,v 2.4 2006/06/03 20:28:48 dankogai Exp dankogai $
3ef515df 2package encoding;
656ebd29 3our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.4 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r };
3ef515df 4
5use Encode;
046f36bf 6use strict;
656ebd29 7use warnings;
b1aeb384 8
8f139f4c 9sub DEBUG () { 0 }
3ef515df 10
11BEGIN {
d1256cb1 12 if ( ord("A") == 193 ) {
13 require Carp;
14 Carp::croak("encoding: pragma does not support EBCDIC platforms");
3ef515df 15 }
16}
17
0ab8f81e 18our $HAS_PERLIO = 0;
19eval { require PerlIO::encoding };
d1256cb1 20unless ($@) {
21 $HAS_PERLIO = ( PerlIO::encoding->VERSION >= 0.02 );
0ab8f81e 22}
b2704119 23
d1256cb1 24sub _exception {
151b5d36 25 my $name = shift;
d1256cb1 26 $] > 5.008 and return 0; # 5.8.1 or higher then no
27 my %utfs = map { $_ => 1 }
28 qw(utf8 UCS-2BE UCS-2LE UTF-16 UTF-16BE UTF-16LE
29 UTF-32 UTF-32BE UTF-32LE);
30 $utfs{$name} or return 0; # UTFs or no
31 require Config;
32 Config->import();
33 our %Config;
34 return $Config{perl_patchlevel} ? 0 : 1 # maintperl then no
151b5d36 35}
fa6f41cf 36
d1256cb1 37sub in_locale { $^H & ( $locale::hint_bits || 0 ) }
b1aeb384 38
39sub _get_locale_encoding {
40 my $locale_encoding;
41
42 # I18N::Langinfo isn't available everywhere
43 eval {
d1256cb1 44 require I18N::Langinfo;
45 I18N::Langinfo->import(qw(langinfo CODESET));
46 $locale_encoding = langinfo( CODESET() );
b1aeb384 47 };
d1256cb1 48
b1aeb384 49 my $country_language;
50
51 no warnings 'uninitialized';
52
d1256cb1 53 if ( not $locale_encoding && in_locale() ) {
54 if ( $ENV{LC_ALL} =~ /^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$/ ) {
55 ( $country_language, $locale_encoding ) = ( $1, $2 );
56 }
57 elsif ( $ENV{LANG} =~ /^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$/ ) {
58 ( $country_language, $locale_encoding ) = ( $1, $2 );
59 }
60
61 # LANGUAGE affects only LC_MESSAGES only on glibc
62 }
63 elsif ( not $locale_encoding ) {
64 if ( $ENV{LC_ALL} =~ /\butf-?8\b/i
65 || $ENV{LANG} =~ /\butf-?8\b/i )
66 {
67 $locale_encoding = 'utf8';
68 }
69
70 # Could do more heuristics based on the country and language
71 # parts of LC_ALL and LANG (the parts before the dot (if any)),
72 # since we have Locale::Country and Locale::Language available.
73 # TODO: get a database of Language -> Encoding mappings
74 # (the Estonian database at http://www.eki.ee/letter/
75 # would be excellent!) --jhi
b1aeb384 76 }
d1256cb1 77 if ( defined $locale_encoding
78 && lc($locale_encoding) eq 'euc'
79 && defined $country_language )
80 {
81 if ( $country_language =~ /^ja_JP|japan(?:ese)?$/i ) {
82 $locale_encoding = 'euc-jp';
83 }
84 elsif ( $country_language =~ /^ko_KR|korean?$/i ) {
85 $locale_encoding = 'euc-kr';
86 }
5a1dbf39 87 elsif ( $country_language =~ /^zh_CN|chin(?:a|ese)$/i ) {
d1256cb1 88 $locale_encoding = 'euc-cn';
89 }
90 elsif ( $country_language =~ /^zh_TW|taiwan(?:ese)?$/i ) {
91 $locale_encoding = 'euc-tw';
92 }
93 else {
94 require Carp;
95 Carp::croak(
96 "encoding: Locale encoding '$locale_encoding' too ambiguous"
97 );
98 }
b1aeb384 99 }
100
101 return $locale_encoding;
102}
103
3ef515df 104sub import {
105 my $class = shift;
106 my $name = shift;
d1256cb1 107 if ( $name eq ':_get_locale_encoding' ) { # used by lib/open.pm
108 my $caller = caller();
b1aeb384 109 {
d1256cb1 110 no strict 'refs';
111 *{"${caller}::_get_locale_encoding"} = \&_get_locale_encoding;
112 }
113 return;
b1aeb384 114 }
115 $name = _get_locale_encoding() if $name eq ':locale';
3ef515df 116 my %arg = @_;
b1aeb384 117 $name = $ENV{PERL_ENCODING} unless defined $name;
3ef515df 118 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
d1256cb1 119 unless ( defined $enc ) {
120 require Carp;
121 Carp::croak("encoding: Unknown encoding '$name'");
122 }
123 $name = $enc->name; # canonize
124 unless ( $arg{Filter} ) {
125 DEBUG and warn "_exception($name) = ", _exception($name);
126 _exception($name) or ${^ENCODING} = $enc;
127 $HAS_PERLIO or return 1;
3ef515df 128 }
d1256cb1 129 else {
130 defined( ${^ENCODING} ) and undef ${^ENCODING};
131
132 # implicitly 'use utf8'
133 require utf8; # to fetch $utf8::hint_bits;
134 $^H |= $utf8::hint_bits;
135 eval {
136 require Filter::Util::Call;
137 Filter::Util::Call->import;
138 filter_add(
139 sub {
140 my $status = filter_read();
141 if ( $status > 0 ) {
142 $_ = $enc->decode( $_, 1 );
143 DEBUG and warn $_;
144 }
145 $status;
146 }
147 );
148 };
d7fe8a7a 149 $@ eq '' and DEBUG and warn "Filter installed";
b1aeb384 150 }
05ef2f67 151 defined ${^UNICODE} and ${^UNICODE} != 0 and return 1;
d1256cb1 152 for my $h (qw(STDIN STDOUT)) {
153 if ( $arg{$h} ) {
154 unless ( defined find_encoding( $arg{$h} ) ) {
155 require Carp;
156 Carp::croak(
157 "encoding: Unknown encoding for $h, '$arg{$h}'");
158 }
159 eval { binmode( $h, ":raw :encoding($arg{$h})" ) };
160 }
161 else {
162 unless ( exists $arg{$h} ) {
163 eval {
164 no warnings 'uninitialized';
165 binmode( $h, ":raw :encoding($name)" );
166 };
167 }
168 }
169 if ($@) {
170 require Carp;
171 Carp::croak($@);
172 }
3ef515df 173 }
d1256cb1 174 return 1; # I doubt if we need it, though
3ef515df 175}
176
d1256cb1 177sub unimport {
3ef515df 178 no warnings;
179 undef ${^ENCODING};
d1256cb1 180 if ($HAS_PERLIO) {
181 binmode( STDIN, ":raw" );
182 binmode( STDOUT, ":raw" );
183 }
184 else {
185 binmode(STDIN);
186 binmode(STDOUT);
621b0f8d 187 }
d1256cb1 188 if ( $INC{"Filter/Util/Call.pm"} ) {
189 eval { filter_del() };
aae85ceb 190 }
3ef515df 191}
192
1931;
194__END__
85982a32 195
3ef515df 196=pod
197
198=head1 NAME
199
0ab8f81e 200encoding - allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8
3ef515df 201
202=head1 SYNOPSIS
203
962111ca 204 use encoding "greek"; # Perl like Greek to you?
3ef515df 205 use encoding "euc-jp"; # Jperl!
206
962111ca 207 # or you can even do this if your shell supports your native encoding
3ef515df 208
962111ca 209 perl -Mencoding=latin2 -e '...' # Feeling centrally European?
0ab8f81e 210 perl -Mencoding=euc-kr -e '...' # Or Korean?
3ef515df 211
3ef515df 212 # more control
213
962111ca 214 # A simple euc-cn => utf-8 converter
6d1c0808 215 use encoding "euc-cn", STDOUT => "utf8"; while(<>){print};
3ef515df 216
217 # "no encoding;" supported (but not scoped!)
218 no encoding;
219
aae85ceb 220 # an alternate way, Filter
221 use encoding "euc-jp", Filter=>1;
aae85ceb 222 # now you can use kanji identifiers -- in euc-jp!
223
b1aeb384 224 # switch on locale -
225 # note that this probably means that unless you have a complete control
226 # over the environments the application is ever going to be run, you should
227 # NOT use the feature of encoding pragma allowing you to write your script
228 # in any recognized encoding because changing locale settings will wreck
229 # the script; you can of course still use the other features of the pragma.
230 use encoding ':locale';
231
3ef515df 232=head1 ABSTRACT
233
962111ca 234Let's start with a bit of history: Perl 5.6.0 introduced Unicode
235support. You could apply C<substr()> and regexes even to complex CJK
236characters -- so long as the script was written in UTF-8. But back
0ab8f81e 237then, text editors that supported UTF-8 were still rare and many users
238instead chose to write scripts in legacy encodings, giving up a whole
239new feature of Perl 5.6.
3ef515df 240
0ab8f81e 241Rewind to the future: starting from perl 5.8.0 with the B<encoding>
962111ca 242pragma, you can write your script in any encoding you like (so long
243as the C<Encode> module supports it) and still enjoy Unicode support.
0f29a567 244This pragma achieves that by doing the following:
05ef2f67 245
246=over
247
248=item *
249
250Internally converts all literals (C<q//,qq//,qr//,qw///, qx//>) from
251the encoding specified to utf8. In Perl 5.8.1 and later, literals in
252C<tr///> and C<DATA> pseudo-filehandle are also converted.
253
254=item *
255
256Changing PerlIO layers of C<STDIN> and C<STDOUT> to the encoding
257 specified.
258
259=back
260
261=head2 Literal Conversions
262
0ab8f81e 263You can write code in EUC-JP as follows:
3ef515df 264
265 my $Rakuda = "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC"; # Camel in Kanji
266 #<-char-><-char-> # 4 octets
267 s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/;
268
269And with C<use encoding "euc-jp"> in effect, it is the same thing as
962111ca 270the code in UTF-8:
3ef515df 271
32b9ed1f 272 my $Rakuda = "\x{99F1}\x{99DD}"; # two Unicode Characters
3ef515df 273 s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/;
274
05ef2f67 275=head2 PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)>
276
277The B<encoding> pragma also modifies the filehandle layers of
4b291ae6 278STDIN and STDOUT to the specified encoding. Therefore,
3ef515df 279
280 use encoding "euc-jp";
281 my $message = "Camel is the symbol of perl.\n";
282 my $Rakuda = "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC"; # Camel in Kanji
283 $message =~ s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/;
284 print $message;
285
962111ca 286Will print "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC is the symbol of perl.\n",
287not "\x{99F1}\x{99DD} is the symbol of perl.\n".
3ef515df 288
0ab8f81e 289You can override this by giving extra arguments; see below.
3ef515df 290
990e18f7 291=head2 Implicit upgrading for byte strings
292
293By default, if strings operating under byte semantics and strings
294with Unicode character data are concatenated, the new string will
295be created by decoding the byte strings as I<ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)>.
296
297The B<encoding> pragma changes this to use the specified encoding
298instead. For example:
299
300 use encoding 'utf8';
301 my $string = chr(20000); # a Unicode string
302 utf8::encode($string); # now it's a UTF-8 encoded byte string
303 # concatenate with another Unicode string
304 print length($string . chr(20000));
305
306Will print C<2>, because C<$string> is upgraded as UTF-8. Without
307C<use encoding 'utf8';>, it will print C<4> instead, since C<$string>
308is three octets when interpreted as Latin-1.
309
05ef2f67 310=head1 FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1
311
312Some of the features offered by this pragma requires perl 5.8.1. Most
0f29a567 313of these are done by Inaba Hiroto. Any other features and changes
05ef2f67 314are good for 5.8.0.
315
316=over
317
318=item "NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings
319
0f29a567 320Because perl needs to parse script before applying this pragma, such
05ef2f67 321encodings as Shift_JIS and Big-5 that may contain '\' (BACKSLASH;
322\x5c) in the second byte fails because the second byte may
0f29a567 323accidentally escape the quoting character that follows. Perl 5.8.1
05ef2f67 324or later fixes this problem.
325
326=item tr//
327
328C<tr//> was overlooked by Perl 5 porters when they released perl 5.8.0
329See the section below for details.
330
331=item DATA pseudo-filehandle
332
333Another feature that was overlooked was C<DATA>.
334
335=back
336
3ef515df 337=head1 USAGE
338
339=over 4
340
341=item use encoding [I<ENCNAME>] ;
342
05ef2f67 343Sets the script encoding to I<ENCNAME>. And unless ${^UNICODE}
344exists and non-zero, PerlIO layers of STDIN and STDOUT are set to
345":encoding(I<ENCNAME>)".
346
347Note that STDERR WILL NOT be changed.
348
349Also note that non-STD file handles remain unaffected. Use C<use
350open> or C<binmode> to change layers of those.
3ef515df 351
352If no encoding is specified, the environment variable L<PERL_ENCODING>
962111ca 353is consulted. If no encoding can be found, the error C<Unknown encoding
354'I<ENCNAME>'> will be thrown.
3ef515df 355
aae85ceb 356=item use encoding I<ENCNAME> [ STDIN =E<gt> I<ENCNAME_IN> ...] ;
3ef515df 357
0ab8f81e 358You can also individually set encodings of STDIN and STDOUT via the
32b9ed1f 359C<< STDIN => I<ENCNAME> >> form. In this case, you cannot omit the
360first I<ENCNAME>. C<< STDIN => undef >> turns the IO transcoding
aae85ceb 361completely off.
3ef515df 362
05ef2f67 363When ${^UNICODE} exists and non-zero, these options will completely
364ignored. ${^UNICODE} is a variable introduced in perl 5.8.1. See
365L<perlrun> see L<perlvar/"${^UNICODE}"> and L<perlrun/"-C"> for
366details (perl 5.8.1 and later).
367
151b5d36 368=item use encoding I<ENCNAME> Filter=E<gt>1;
369
370This turns the encoding pragma into a source filter. While the
371default approach just decodes interpolated literals (in qq() and
372qr()), this will apply a source filter to the entire source code. See
05ef2f67 373L</"The Filter Option"> below for details.
151b5d36 374
3ef515df 375=item no encoding;
376
05ef2f67 377Unsets the script encoding. The layers of STDIN, STDOUT are
962111ca 378reset to ":raw" (the default unprocessed raw stream of bytes).
3ef515df 379
380=back
381
151b5d36 382=head1 The Filter Option
383
384The magic of C<use encoding> is not applied to the names of
385identifiers. In order to make C<${"\x{4eba}"}++> ($human++, where human
386is a single Han ideograph) work, you still need to write your script
387in UTF-8 -- or use a source filter. That's what 'Filter=>1' does.
388
151b5d36 389What does this mean? Your source code behaves as if it is written in
390UTF-8 with 'use utf8' in effect. So even if your editor only supports
391Shift_JIS, for example, you can still try examples in Chapter 15 of
392C<Programming Perl, 3rd Ed.>. For instance, you can use UTF-8
393identifiers.
394
395This option is significantly slower and (as of this writing) non-ASCII
396identifiers are not very stable WITHOUT this option and with the
397source code written in UTF-8.
398
399=head2 Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87
400
401=over
402
403=item *
404
405The Filter option now sets STDIN and STDOUT like non-filter options.
406And C<< STDIN=>I<ENCODING> >> and C<< STDOUT=>I<ENCODING> >> work like
407non-filter version.
408
409=item *
410
411C<use utf8> is implicitly declared so you no longer have to C<use
412utf8> to C<${"\x{4eba}"}++>.
413
414=back
415
3ef515df 416=head1 CAVEATS
417
418=head2 NOT SCOPED
419
420The pragma is a per script, not a per block lexical. Only the last
621b0f8d 421C<use encoding> or C<no encoding> matters, and it affects
422B<the whole script>. However, the <no encoding> pragma is supported and
423B<use encoding> can appear as many times as you want in a given script.
424The multiple use of this pragma is discouraged.
425
0f29a567 426By the same reason, the use this pragma inside modules is also
3c4b39be 427discouraged (though not as strongly discouraged as the case above.
0f29a567 428See below).
05ef2f67 429
430If you still have to write a module with this pragma, be very careful
431of the load order. See the codes below;
432
433 # called module
434 package Module_IN_BAR;
435 use encoding "bar";
436 # stuff in "bar" encoding here
437 1;
438
439 # caller script
440 use encoding "foo"
441 use Module_IN_BAR;
442 # surprise! use encoding "bar" is in effect.
443
444The best way to avoid this oddity is to use this pragma RIGHT AFTER
445other modules are loaded. i.e.
446
447 use Module_IN_BAR;
448 use encoding "foo";
3ef515df 449
450=head2 DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS
451
452Notice that only literals (string or regular expression) having only
453legacy code points are affected: if you mix data like this
454
d1256cb1 455 \xDF\x{100}
3ef515df 456
457the data is assumed to be in (Latin 1 and) Unicode, not in your native
458encoding. In other words, this will match in "greek":
459
d1256cb1 460 "\xDF" =~ /\x{3af}/
3ef515df 461
462but this will not
463
d1256cb1 464 "\xDF\x{100}" =~ /\x{3af}\x{100}/
3ef515df 465
962111ca 466since the C<\xDF> (ISO 8859-7 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS) on
467the left will B<not> be upgraded to C<\x{3af}> (Unicode GREEK SMALL
468LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS) because of the C<\x{100}> on the left. You
469should not be mixing your legacy data and Unicode in the same string.
3ef515df 470
471This pragma also affects encoding of the 0x80..0xFF code point range:
472normally characters in that range are left as eight-bit bytes (unless
473they are combined with characters with code points 0x100 or larger,
474in which case all characters need to become UTF-8 encoded), but if
475the C<encoding> pragma is present, even the 0x80..0xFF range always
476gets UTF-8 encoded.
477
478After all, the best thing about this pragma is that you don't have to
0ab8f81e 479resort to \x{....} just to spell your name in a native encoding.
480So feel free to put your strings in your encoding in quotes and
481regexes.
3ef515df 482
151b5d36 483=head2 tr/// with ranges
4b291ae6 484
485The B<encoding> pragma works by decoding string literals in
151b5d36 486C<q//,qq//,qr//,qw///, qx//> and so forth. In perl 5.8.0, this
4b291ae6 487does not apply to C<tr///>. Therefore,
488
489 use encoding 'euc-jp';
490 #....
491 $kana =~ tr/\xA4\xA1-\xA4\xF3/\xA5\xA1-\xA5\xF3/;
492 # -------- -------- -------- --------
493
494Does not work as
495
496 $kana =~ tr/\x{3041}-\x{3093}/\x{30a1}-\x{30f3}/;
497
498=over
499
500=item Legend of characters above
501
502 utf8 euc-jp charnames::viacode()
503 -----------------------------------------
504 \x{3041} \xA4\xA1 HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL A
505 \x{3093} \xA4\xF3 HIRAGANA LETTER N
506 \x{30a1} \xA5\xA1 KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A
507 \x{30f3} \xA5\xF3 KATAKANA LETTER N
508
509=back
510
05ef2f67 511This counterintuitive behavior has been fixed in perl 5.8.1.
151b5d36 512
4b291ae6 513=head3 workaround to tr///;
514
ce16148b 515In perl 5.8.0, you can work around as follows;
4b291ae6 516
517 use encoding 'euc-jp';
151b5d36 518 # ....
4b291ae6 519 eval qq{ \$kana =~ tr/\xA4\xA1-\xA4\xF3/\xA5\xA1-\xA5\xF3/ };
520
ce16148b 521Note the C<tr//> expression is surrounded by C<qq{}>. The idea behind
4b291ae6 522is the same as classic idiom that makes C<tr///> 'interpolate'.
523
524 tr/$from/$to/; # wrong!
525 eval qq{ tr/$from/$to/ }; # workaround.
526
527Nevertheless, in case of B<encoding> pragma even C<q//> is affected so
528C<tr///> not being decoded was obviously against the will of Perl5
05ef2f67 529Porters so it has been fixed in Perl 5.8.1 or later.
aae85ceb 530
3ef515df 531=head1 EXAMPLE - Greekperl
532
533 use encoding "iso 8859-7";
534
0ab8f81e 535 # \xDF in ISO 8859-7 (Greek) is \x{3af} in Unicode.
3ef515df 536
537 $a = "\xDF";
538 $b = "\x{100}";
539
540 printf "%#x\n", ord($a); # will print 0x3af, not 0xdf
541
542 $c = $a . $b;
543
544 # $c will be "\x{3af}\x{100}", not "\x{df}\x{100}".
545
546 # chr() is affected, and ...
547
548 print "mega\n" if ord(chr(0xdf)) == 0x3af;
549
550 # ... ord() is affected by the encoding pragma ...
551
552 print "tera\n" if ord(pack("C", 0xdf)) == 0x3af;
553
554 # ... as are eq and cmp ...
555
556 print "peta\n" if "\x{3af}" eq pack("C", 0xdf);
557 print "exa\n" if "\x{3af}" cmp pack("C", 0xdf) == 0;
558
559 # ... but pack/unpack C are not affected, in case you still
0ab8f81e 560 # want to go back to your native encoding
3ef515df 561
562 print "zetta\n" if unpack("C", (pack("C", 0xdf))) == 0xdf;
563
564=head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS
565
151b5d36 566=over
567
0f29a567 568=item literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes
151b5d36 569
0ab8f81e 570For native multibyte encodings (either fixed or variable length),
3ef515df 571the current implementation of the regular expressions may introduce
0ab8f81e 572recoding errors for regular expression literals longer than 127 bytes.
3ef515df 573
05ef2f67 574=item EBCDIC
151b5d36 575
3ef515df 576The encoding pragma is not supported on EBCDIC platforms.
0ab8f81e 577(Porters who are willing and able to remove this limitation are
578welcome.)
3ef515df 579
05ef2f67 580=item format
581
582This pragma doesn't work well with format because PerlIO does not
583get along very well with it. When format contains non-ascii
584characters it prints funny or gets "wide character warnings".
585To understand it, try the code below.
586
587 # Save this one in utf8
588 # replace *non-ascii* with a non-ascii string
589 my $camel;
590 format STDOUT =
591 *non-ascii*@>>>>>>>
592 $camel
593 .
594 $camel = "*non-ascii*";
595 binmode(STDOUT=>':encoding(utf8)'); # bang!
596 write; # funny
597 print $camel, "\n"; # fine
598
599Without binmode this happens to work but without binmode, print()
600fails instead of write().
601
602At any rate, the very use of format is questionable when it comes to
603unicode characters since you have to consider such things as character
604width (i.e. double-width for ideographs) and directions (i.e. BIDI for
605Arabic and Hebrew).
606
151b5d36 607=back
608
b1aeb384 609=head2 The Logic of :locale
610
611The logic of C<:locale> is as follows:
612
613=over 4
614
615=item 1.
616
617If the platform supports the langinfo(CODESET) interface, the codeset
618returned is used as the default encoding for the open pragma.
619
620=item 2.
621
622If 1. didn't work but we are under the locale pragma, the environment
623variables LC_ALL and LANG (in that order) are matched for encodings
624(the part after C<.>, if any), and if any found, that is used
625as the default encoding for the open pragma.
626
627=item 3.
628
629If 1. and 2. didn't work, the environment variables LC_ALL and LANG
630(in that order) are matched for anything looking like UTF-8, and if
631any found, C<:utf8> is used as the default encoding for the open
632pragma.
633
634=back
635
636If your locale environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG)
637contain the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8' (case-insensitive matching),
638the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and of
639B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8.
640
05ef2f67 641=head1 HISTORY
642
643This pragma first appeared in Perl 5.8.0. For features that require
6445.8.1 and better, see above.
645
b1aeb384 646The C<:locale> subpragma was implemented in 2.01, or Perl 5.8.6.
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aae85ceb 650L<perlunicode>, L<Encode>, L<open>, L<Filter::Util::Call>,
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652Ch. 15 of C<Programming Perl (3rd Edition)>
653by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant;
654O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN 0-596-00027-8
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