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1 | =head1 NAME |
2 | |
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3 | Encode::Supported -- Supported encodings by Encode |
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4 | |
5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
6 | |
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7 | =head2 Encoding Names |
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8 | |
9 | Encoding names are case insensitive. White space in names |
10 | is ignored. In addition an encoding may have aliases. |
11 | Each encoding has one "canonical" name. The "canonical" |
12 | name is chosen from the names of the encoding by picking |
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13 | the first in the following sequence (with a few exceptions). |
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14 | |
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15 | =over |
16 | |
17 | =item * |
18 | |
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19 | The name used by the Perl community. That includes 'utf8' and 'ascii'. |
20 | Unlike aliases, canonical names directly reach the method so such |
21 | frequently used words like 'utf8' don't need to do alias lookups. |
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22 | |
23 | =item * |
24 | |
25 | The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs This includes all "iso-"'s. |
26 | |
27 | =item * |
28 | |
29 | The name in the IANA registry. |
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30 | |
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31 | =item * |
32 | |
33 | The name used by the organization that defined it. |
34 | |
35 | =back |
36 | |
37 | In case I<de jure> canonical names differ from that of the Encode |
38 | module, they are always aliased if it ever be implemented. So you can |
39 | safely tell if a given encoding is implemented or not just by passing |
40 | the canonical name. |
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41 | |
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42 | Because of all the alias issues, and because in the general case |
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43 | encodings have state, "Encode" uses an encoding object internally |
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44 | once an operation is in progress. |
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45 | |
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46 | =head1 Supported Encodings |
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47 | |
48 | As of Perl 5.8.0, at least the following encodings are recognized. |
49 | Note that unless otherwise specified, they are all case insensitive |
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50 | (via alias) and all occurrence of spaces are replaced with '-'. |
51 | In other words, "ISO 8859 1" and "iso-8859-1" are identical. |
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52 | |
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53 | Encodings are categorized and implemented in several different modules |
54 | but you don't have to C<use Encode::XX> to make them available for |
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55 | most cases. Encode.pm will automatically load those modules on demand. |
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56 | |
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57 | =head2 Built-in Encodings |
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58 | |
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59 | The following encodings are always available. |
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60 | |
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61 | Canonical Aliases Comments & References |
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62 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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63 | ascii US-ascii [ECMA] |
64 | iso-8859-1 latin1 [ISO] |
65 | utf8 UTF-8 [RFC2279] |
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66 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
67 | |
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68 | =head2 Encode::Unicode -- other Unicode encodings |
69 | |
70 | Unicode coding schemes other than native utf8 are supported by |
71 | Encode::Unicode which will be autoloaded on demand. |
72 | |
73 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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74 | UCS-2BE UCS-2, iso-10646-1 [IANA, UC] |
75 | UCS-2LE [UC] |
76 | UTF-16 [UC] |
77 | UTF-16BE [UC] |
78 | UTF-16LE [UC] |
79 | UTF-32 [UC] |
80 | UTF-32BE [UC] |
81 | UTF-32LE [UC] |
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82 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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83 | |
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84 | To find how those (UCS-2|UTF-(16|32))(LE|BE)? differ to one another, |
85 | see L<Encode::Unicode>. |
86 | |
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87 | =head2 Encode::Byte -- Extended ASCII |
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88 | |
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89 | Encode::Byte implements most of single-byte encodings except for |
90 | Symbols and EBCDIC. The following encodings are based single-byte |
91 | encoding implemented as extended ASCII. For most cases it uses |
92 | \x80-\xff (upper half) to map non-ASCII characters. |
93 | |
94 | =over 2 |
95 | |
96 | =item ISO-8859 and corresponding vendor mappings |
97 | |
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98 | Since there are so many, they are presented in table format with |
99 | languages and corresponding encoding names by vendors. Note the table |
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100 | is sorted in order of ISO-8859 and the corresponding vendor mappings |
101 | are slightly different from that of ISO. See |
102 | L<http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html> for details. |
103 | |
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104 | Lang/Regions ISO/Other Std. DOS Windows Macintosh Others |
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105 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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106 | N. America (ASCII) cp437 AdobeStandardEncoding |
107 | cp863 (DOSCanadaF) |
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108 | W. Europe iso-8859-1 cp850 cp1252 MacRoman nextstep |
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109 | hp-roman8 |
110 | cp860 (DOSPortuguese) |
111 | Cntrl. Europe iso-8859-2 cp852 cp1250 MacCentralEurRoman |
112 | MacCroatian |
113 | MacRomanian |
114 | MacRumanian |
115 | Latin3 [1] iso-8859-3 |
116 | Latin4 [2] iso-8859-4 |
117 | Cyrillics iso-8859-5 cp855 cp1251 MacCyrillic |
118 | (Also see next section) cp866 MacUkrainian |
119 | Arabic iso-8859-6 cp864 cp1256 MacArabic |
120 | cp1006 MacFarsi |
121 | Greek iso-8859-7 cp737 cp1253 MacGreek |
122 | cp869 (DOSGreek2) |
123 | Hebrew iso-8859-8 cp862 cp1255 MacHebrew |
124 | Turkish iso-8859-9 cp857 cp1254 MacTurkish |
125 | Nordics iso-8859-10 cp865 |
126 | cp861 MacIcelandic |
127 | MacSami |
128 | Thai iso-8859-11 [3] cp874 MacThai |
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129 | (iso-8859-12 is nonexistent. Reserved for Indics?) |
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130 | Baltics iso-8859-13 cp775 cp1257 |
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131 | Celtics iso-8859-14 |
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132 | Latin9 [4] iso-8859-15 |
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133 | Latin10 iso-8859-16 |
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134 | Vietnamese viscii cp1258 MacVietnamese |
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135 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
136 | |
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137 | [1] Esperanto, Maltese, and Turkish. Turkish is now on 8859-5. |
138 | [2] Baltics. Now on 8859-10. |
139 | [3] Also know as TIS 620. |
140 | [4] Nicknamed Latin0; Euro sign as well as French and Finnish |
141 | letters that are missing from 8859-1 are added. |
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142 | |
143 | All cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-* . See also |
144 | L<http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html>. |
145 | |
146 | Macintosh encodings don't seem to be registered in such entities as |
147 | IANA. "Canonical" names in Encode are based upon Apple's Tech Note |
148 | 1150. See L<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html> |
149 | for details |
150 | |
151 | =item KOI8 - De Facto Standard for Cyrillic world |
152 | |
153 | Though ISO-8859 does have ISO-8859, KOI8 series is far more popular |
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154 | in the Net. L<Encode> comes with the following KOI charsets. |
155 | For gory details, see L<http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html> |
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156 | |
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157 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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158 | koi8-f |
159 | koi8-r cp878 [RFC1489] |
160 | koi8-u [RFC2319] |
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161 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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162 | |
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163 | =item gsm0338 - Hentai Latin 1 |
164 | |
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165 | GSM0338 is for GSM handsets. Though it shares alphanumerals with |
166 | ASCII, control character ranges and other parts are mapped very |
167 | differently, presumably to store Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. |
168 | This is also covered in Encode::Byte even though it does not |
169 | comply to extended ASCII. |
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170 | |
171 | =back |
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172 | |
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173 | =head2 The CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Multibyte) |
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174 | |
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175 | Note that Vietnamese is listed above. Also read "Encoding vs Charset" |
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176 | below. Also note these are implemented in distinct module by |
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177 | languages, due the the size concerns. Please refer to their |
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178 | respective document pages. |
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179 | |
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180 | =over 4 |
181 | |
182 | =item Encode::CN -- Continental China |
183 | |
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184 | Standard DOS/Win Macintosh Comment/Reference |
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185 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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186 | euc-cn [1] MacChineseSimp |
187 | (gbk) cp936 [2] |
188 | gb12345-raw { GB12345 without CES } |
189 | gb2312-raw { GB2312 without CES } |
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190 | hz |
191 | iso-ir-165 |
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192 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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193 | |
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194 | [1] GB2312 is aliased to this. see L<Microsoft-related naming mess> |
195 | [2] gbk is aliased to this. see L<Microsoft-related naming mess> |
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196 | |
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197 | =item Encode::JP -- Japan |
198 | |
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199 | Standard DOS/Win Macintosh Comment/Reference |
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200 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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201 | euc-jp |
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202 | shiftjis cp932 macJapanese |
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203 | 7bit-jis |
204 | euc-jp |
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205 | iso-2022-jp [RFC1468] |
206 | iso-2022-jp-1 [RFC2237] |
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207 | jis0201-raw { JIS X 0201 (roman + halfwidth kana) without CES } |
208 | jis0208-raw { JIS X 0208 (Kanji + fullwidth kana) without CES } |
209 | jis0212-raw { JIS X 0212 (Extended Kanji) without CES } |
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210 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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211 | |
212 | =item Encode::KR -- Korea |
213 | |
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214 | Standard DOS/Win Macintosh Comment/Reference |
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215 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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216 | euc-kr MacKorean [RFC1557] |
217 | cp949 [1] |
218 | iso-2022-kr [RFC1557] |
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219 | johab [KS X 1001:1998, Annex 3] |
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220 | ksc5601-raw { KSC5601 without CES } |
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221 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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222 | |
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223 | [1] ks_c_5601-1987, (x-)?windows-949, and uhc are aliased to this. |
224 | See below. |
225 | |
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226 | =item Encode::TW -- Taiwan |
227 | |
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228 | Standard DOS/Win Macintosh Comment/Reference |
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229 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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230 | big5-eten cp950 MacChineseTrad {big5 aliased to big5-eten} |
231 | big5-hkscs |
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232 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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233 | |
234 | =item Encode::HanExtra -- More Chinese via CPAN |
235 | |
236 | Due to size concerns, additional Chinese encodings below are |
237 | distributed separately on CPAN, under the name Encode::HanExtra. |
238 | |
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239 | Standard DOS/Win Macintosh Comment/Reference |
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240 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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241 | gb18030 |
242 | euc-tw |
243 | big5plus |
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244 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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245 | |
246 | =back |
247 | |
248 | =head2 Miscellaneous encodings |
249 | |
250 | =over 4 |
251 | |
252 | =item Encode::EBCDIC |
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253 | |
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254 | See L<perlebcdic> for details. |
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255 | |
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256 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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257 | cp37 |
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258 | cp500 |
259 | cp875 |
260 | cp1026 |
261 | cp1047 |
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262 | posix-bc |
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263 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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264 | |
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265 | =item Encode::Symbols |
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266 | |
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267 | For symbols and dingbats. |
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268 | |
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269 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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270 | symbol |
271 | dingbats |
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272 | MacDingbats |
273 | AdobeZdingbat |
274 | AdobeSymbol |
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275 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
276 | |
277 | =back |
278 | |
279 | =head1 Unsupported encodings |
280 | |
281 | The following are not supported as yet. Some because they are rarely |
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282 | used, some because of technical difficulties. They may be supported by |
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283 | external modules via CPAN in future, however. |
284 | |
285 | =over 4 |
286 | |
287 | =item ISO-2022-JP-2 [RFC1554] |
288 | |
289 | Not very popular yet. Needs Unicode Database or equivalent to |
290 | implement encode() (Because it includes JIS X 0208/0212, KSC5601, and |
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291 | GB2312 simultaneously, which code points in Unicode overlap. So you |
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292 | need to lookup the database to determine what character set a given |
293 | Unicode character should belong). |
294 | |
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295 | =item ISO-2022-CN [RFC1922] |
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296 | |
297 | Not very popular. Needs CNS 11643-1 and 2 which are not available in |
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298 | this module. CNS 11643 is supported (via euc-tw) in Encode::HanExtra. |
299 | Autrijus may add support for this encoding in his module in future. |
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300 | |
301 | =item various UP-UX encodings |
302 | |
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303 | The following are unsupported due to the lack of mapping data. |
304 | |
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305 | '8' - arabic8, greek8, hebrew8, kana8, thai8, and turkish8 |
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306 | '15' - japanese15, korean15, and roi15 |
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307 | |
308 | =item Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111 |
309 | |
310 | Anton doubts its usefulness. |
311 | |
312 | =item ISO-8859-8-1 [Hebrew] |
313 | |
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314 | None of the Encode team knows Hebrew enough (ISO-8859-8, cp1255 and |
315 | MacHebrew are supported because and just because there were mappings |
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316 | available at L<http://www.unicode.org/>). Contributions welcome. |
317 | |
318 | =item ISIRI 3342, Iran System, ISIRI 2900 [Farsi] |
319 | |
320 | Ditto. |
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321 | |
322 | =item Thai encoding TCVN |
323 | |
324 | Ditto. |
325 | |
326 | =item Vietnamese encodings VPS |
327 | |
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328 | Though Jungshik has reported that Mozilla supports this encoding it |
329 | was too late before 5.8.0 for us to add one. In future via a separate |
330 | module. See |
331 | L<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/intl/uconv/ucvlatin/vps.uf> |
332 | and |
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333 | L<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/intl/uconv/ucvlatin/vps.ut> |
334 | if you are interested in helping us. |
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335 | |
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336 | =item Various Mac encodings |
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337 | |
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338 | The following are unsupported due to the lack of mapping data. |
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339 | |
340 | MacArmenian, MacBengali, MacBurmese, MacEthiopic |
341 | MacExtArabic, MacGeorgian, MacKannada, MacKhmer |
342 | MacLaotian, MacMalayalam, MacMongolian, MacOriya |
343 | MacSinhalese, MacTamil, MacTelugu, MacTibetan |
344 | MacVietnamese |
345 | |
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346 | The rest of which already available are based upon the vendor mappings |
347 | at L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/> . |
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348 | |
349 | =item (Mac) Indic encodings |
350 | |
351 | The maps for the following is available at L<http://www.unicode.org/> |
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352 | but remains unsupport because those encodings need algorithmical |
353 | approach, currently unsupported by F<enc2xs> |
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354 | |
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355 | MacDevanagari |
356 | MacGurmukhi |
357 | MacGujarati |
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358 | |
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359 | For details, please see C<Unicode mapping issues and notes:> at |
360 | L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/DEVANAGA.TXT> . |
361 | |
362 | I believe this issue is prevalent not only for Mac Indics but also in |
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363 | other Indic encodings, but the above were the only Indic encodings |
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364 | maps that I could find at L<http://www.unicode.org/> . |
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365 | |
366 | =back |
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367 | |
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368 | =head1 Encoding vs. Charset -- terminology |
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369 | |
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370 | We are used to using the term (character) I<encoding> and I<character set> |
371 | interchangeably. But just as using the term byte and character is |
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372 | dangerous and should be differentiated when needed, we need to |
373 | differentiate I<encoding> and I<character set>. |
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374 | |
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375 | To understand that, it's follow how we make computers grok our characters. |
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376 | |
377 | =over 4 |
378 | |
379 | =item * |
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380 | |
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381 | First we start with which characters to include. We call this |
382 | collection of characters I<character repertoire>. |
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383 | |
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384 | =item * |
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385 | |
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386 | Then we have to give each character a unique ID so your computer can |
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387 | tell the difference from 'a' to 'A'. This itemized character |
388 | repertoire is now a I<character set>. |
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389 | |
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390 | =item * |
391 | |
392 | If your computer can grow the character set without further |
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393 | processing, you can go ahead use it. This is called a I<coded |
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394 | character set> (CCS) or I<raw character encoding>. ASCII is used this |
395 | way for most cases. |
396 | |
397 | =item * |
398 | |
399 | But in many cases especially multi-byte CJK encodings, you have to |
400 | tweak a little more. Your network connection may not accept any data |
401 | with the Most Significant Bit set, Your computer may not be able to |
402 | tell if a given byte is a whole character or just half of it. So you |
403 | have to I<encode> the character set to use it. |
404 | |
405 | A I<character encoding scheme> (CES) determines how to encode a given |
406 | character set, or a set of multiple character sets. 7bit ISO-2022 is |
407 | an example of CES. You switch between character sets via I<escape |
408 | sequence>. |
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409 | |
410 | =back |
411 | |
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412 | Technically, or Mathematically speaking, a character set encoded in |
413 | such a CES that maps character by character may form a CCS. EUC is such |
414 | an example. CES of EUC is as follows; |
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415 | |
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416 | =over 4 |
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417 | |
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418 | =item * |
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419 | |
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420 | Map ASCII unchanged. |
421 | |
422 | =item * |
423 | |
424 | Map such a character set that consists of 94 or 96 powered by N |
425 | members by adding 0x80 to each byte. |
426 | |
427 | =item * |
428 | |
429 | You can also use 0x8e and 0x8f to tell the following sequence of |
430 | characters belong to yet another character set. each following byte |
431 | is added by 0x80 |
432 | |
433 | =back |
434 | |
435 | By carefully looking at at the encoded byte sequence, you may find the |
436 | byte sequence conforms a unique number. In that sense EUC is a CCS |
437 | generated by a CES above from up to four CCS (complicated?). UTF-8 |
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438 | falls into this category. See L<perlUnicode/"UTF-8"> to find how |
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439 | UTF-8 maps Unicode to a byte sequence. |
440 | |
441 | You may also find by now why 7bit ISO-2022 cannot conform a CCS. If |
442 | you look at a byte sequence \x21\x21, you can't tell if it is two !'s |
443 | or IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE. EUC maps the latter to \xA1\xA1 so you have no |
444 | trouble between "!!". and " " |
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445 | |
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446 | =head1 Encoding Classification (by Anton Tagunov and Dan Kogai) |
447 | |
448 | This section tries to classify the supported encodings by their |
449 | applicability for information exchange over the Internet and to |
450 | choose the most suitable aliases to name them in the context of |
451 | such communication. |
452 | |
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453 | =over 2 |
454 | |
455 | =item * |
456 | |
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457 | To (en|de) code Encodings marked as C<(**)>, You need |
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458 | C<Encode::HanExtra>, available from CPAN. |
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459 | |
460 | =back |
461 | |
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462 | Encoding names |
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463 | |
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464 | US-ASCII UTF-8 ISO-8859-* KOI8-R |
465 | Shift_JIS EUC-JP ISO-2022-JP ISO-2022-JP-1 |
466 | EUC-KR Big5 GB2312 |
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467 | |
468 | are registered to IANA as preferred MIME names and may probably |
469 | be used over the Internet. |
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470 | |
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471 | C<Shift_JIS> has been officialized by JIS X 0208:1997. |
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472 | L<Microsoft-related naming mess> gives details. |
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473 | |
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474 | C<GB2312> is the IANA name for C<EUC-CN>. |
475 | See L<Microsoft-related naming mess> for details. |
476 | |
477 | C<GB_2312-80> I<raw> encoding is available as C<gb2312-raw> |
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478 | with Encode. See L<Encode::CN> for details. |
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479 | |
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480 | EUC-CN |
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481 | KOI8-U [RFC2319] |
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482 | |
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483 | have not been registered with IANA (as of March 2002) but |
484 | seem to be supported by major web browsers. |
485 | IANA name for C<EUC-CN> is C<GB2312>. |
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486 | |
487 | KS_C_5601-1987 |
488 | |
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489 | is heavily misused. |
490 | See L<Microsoft-related naming mess> for details. |
491 | |
492 | C<KS_C_5601-1987> I<raw> encoding is available as C<kcs5601-raw> |
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493 | with Encode. See L<Encode::KR> for details. |
494 | |
495 | UTF-16 UTF-16BE UTF-16LE |
496 | |
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497 | are IANA-registered C<charset>s. See [RFC 2781] for details. |
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498 | Jungshik Shin reports that UTF-16 with a BOM is well accepted |
499 | by MS IE 5/6 and NS 4/6. Beware however that |
500 | |
501 | =over 2 |
502 | |
503 | =item * |
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504 | |
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505 | C<UTF-16> support in any software you're going to be |
506 | using/interoperating with has probably been less tested |
507 | then C<UTF-8> support |
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508 | |
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509 | =item * |
510 | |
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511 | C<UTF-8> coded data seamlessly passes traditional |
512 | command piping (C<cat>, C<more>, etc.) while C<UTF-16> coded |
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513 | data is likely to cause confusion (with it's zero bytes, |
514 | for example) |
515 | |
516 | =item * |
517 | |
518 | it is beyond the power of words to describe the way HTML browsers |
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519 | encode non-C<ASCII> form data. To get a general impression visit |
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520 | L<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html>. |
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521 | While encoding of form data has stabilized for C<UTF-8> coded pages |
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522 | (at least IE 5/6, NS 6, Opera 6 behave consistently), be sure to |
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523 | expect fun (and cross-browser discrepancies) with C<UTF-16> coded |
524 | pages! |
525 | |
526 | =back |
527 | |
528 | The rule of thumb is to use C<UTF-8> unless you know what |
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529 | you're doing and unless you really benefit from using C<UTF-16>. |
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530 | |
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531 | |
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532 | ISO-IR-165 [RFC1345] |
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533 | VISCII |
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534 | GB 12345 |
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535 | GB 18030 (**) (see links bellow) |
536 | EUC-TW (**) |
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537 | |
538 | are totally valid encodings but not registered at IANA. |
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539 | The names under which they are listed here are probably the |
540 | most widely-known names for these encodings and are recommended |
541 | names. |
542 | |
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543 | BIG5PLUS (**) |
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544 | |
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545 | is a bit proprietary name. |
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546 | |
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547 | =head2 Microsoft-related naming mess |
548 | |
549 | Microsoft products misuse the following names: |
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550 | |
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551 | =over 2 |
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552 | |
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553 | =item KS_C_5601-1987 |
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554 | |
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555 | Microsoft extension to C<EUC-KR>. |
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556 | |
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557 | Proper names: C<CP949>, C<UHC>, C<x-windows-949> (as used by Mozilla). |
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558 | |
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559 | See L<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-charsets/2001AprJun/0033.html> |
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560 | for details. |
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561 | |
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562 | Encode aliases C<KS_C_5601-1987> to C<cp949> to reflect this common |
563 | misusage. I<Raw> C<KS_C_5601-1987> encoding is available as |
564 | C<kcs5601-raw>. |
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565 | |
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566 | See L<Encode::KR> for details. |
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567 | |
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568 | =item GB2312 |
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569 | |
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570 | Microsoft extension to C<EUC-CN>. |
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571 | |
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572 | Proper names: C<CP936>, C<GBK>. |
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573 | |
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574 | C<GB2312> has been registered in the C<EUC-CN> meaning at |
575 | IANA. This has partially repaired the situation: Microsoft's |
576 | C<GB2312> has become a superset of the official C<GB2312>. |
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577 | |
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578 | Encode aliases C<GB2312> to C<euc-cn> in full agreement with |
579 | IANA registration. C<cp936> is supported separately. |
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580 | I<Raw> C<GB_2312-80> encoding is available as C<gb2312-raw>. |
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581 | |
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582 | See L<Encode::CN> for details. |
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583 | |
584 | =item Big5 |
585 | |
586 | Microsoft extension to C<Big5>. |
587 | |
588 | Proper name: C<CP950>. |
589 | |
590 | Encode separately supports C<Big5> and C<cp950>. |
591 | |
592 | =item Shift_JIS |
593 | |
594 | Microsoft's understanding of C<Shift_JIS>. |
595 | |
596 | JIS has not endorsed the full Microsoft standard however. |
597 | The official C<Shift_JIS> includes only JIS X 0201 and JIS X 0208 |
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598 | character sets, while Microsoft has always been meaning C<Shift_JIS> |
599 | to encode a wider character repertoire. See C<IANA> registration for |
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600 | C<Windows-31J>. |
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601 | |
602 | As a historical predecessor Microsoft's variant |
603 | probably has more rights for the name, albeit it may be objected |
604 | that Microsoft shouldn't have used JIS as part of the name |
605 | in the first place. |
606 | |
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607 | Unambiguous name: C<CP932>. C<IANA> name (not used?): C<Windows-31J>. |
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608 | |
609 | Encode separately supports C<Shift_JIS> and C<cp932>. |
610 | |
611 | =back |
612 | |
613 | =head1 Glossary |
614 | |
615 | =over 2 |
616 | |
617 | =item character repertoire |
618 | |
619 | A collection of unique characters. A I<character> set in the most |
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620 | strict sense. At this stage characters are not numbered. |
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621 | |
622 | =item coded character set (CCS) |
623 | |
624 | A character set that is mapped in a way computers can use directly. |
625 | Many character encodings including EUC falls in this category. |
626 | |
627 | =item character encoding scheme (CES) |
628 | |
629 | An algorithm to map a character set to a byte sequence. You don't |
630 | have to be able to tell which character set a given byte sequence |
631 | belongs. 7-bit ISO-2022 is a CES but it cannot be a CCS. EUC is an |
632 | example of being both a CCS and CES. |
633 | |
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634 | =item charset (in MIME context) |
635 | |
636 | has long been used in the meaning of C<encoding>, CES. |
637 | |
638 | While C<character set> word combination has lost this meaning |
639 | in MIME context since [RFC 2130], C<charset> abbreviation has |
640 | retained it. This is how [RFC 2277], [RFC 2278] bless C<charset>: |
641 | |
642 | |
643 | This document uses the term "charset" to mean a set of rules for |
644 | mapping from a sequence of octets to a sequence of characters, such |
645 | as the combination of a coded character set and a character encoding |
646 | scheme; this is also what is used as an identifier in MIME "charset=" |
647 | parameters, and registered in the IANA charset registry ... (Note |
648 | that this is NOT a term used by other standards bodies, such as ISO). |
649 | [RFC 2277] |
650 | |
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651 | =item EUC |
652 | |
653 | Extended Unix Character. See ISO-2022 |
654 | |
655 | =item ISO-2022 |
656 | |
657 | A CES that was carefully designed to coexist with ASCII. There are 7 |
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658 | bit version and 8 bit version. |
659 | |
660 | 7 bit version switches character set via escape sequence so this |
661 | cannot form a CCS. Since this is more difficult to handle in programs |
662 | than the 8 bit version, 7 bit version is not very popular except for |
663 | iso-2022-jp, the de facto standard CES for e-mails. |
664 | |
665 | 8 bit version can conform a CCS. EUC and ISO-8859 are two examples |
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666 | thereof. Pre-5.6 perl could use them as string literals. |
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667 | |
668 | =item UCS |
669 | |
670 | Short for I<Universal Character Set>. When you say just UCS, it means |
671 | I<Unicode> |
672 | |
673 | =item UCS-2 |
674 | |
675 | ISO/IEC 10646 encoding form: Universal Character Set coded in two |
676 | octets. |
677 | |
678 | =item Unicode |
679 | |
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680 | A Character Set that aims to include all character repertoire of the |
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681 | world. Many character sets in various national as well as industrial |
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682 | standards have become, in a way, just subsets of Unicode. |
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683 | |
684 | =item UTF |
685 | |
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686 | Short for I<Unicode Transformation Format>. Determines how to map a |
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687 | Unicode character into byte sequence. |
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688 | |
689 | =item UTF-16 |
690 | |
691 | A UTF in 16-bit encoding. Can either be in big endian or little |
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692 | endian. Big endian version is called UTF-16BE (equals to UCS-2 + |
693 | Surrogate Support) and little endian version is UTF-16LE. |
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694 | |
695 | =back |
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696 | |
697 | =head1 See Also |
698 | |
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699 | L<Encode>, |
700 | L<Encode::Byte>, |
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701 | L<Encode::CN>, L<Encode::JP>, L<Encode::KR>, L<Encode::TW>, |
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702 | L<Encode::EBCDIC>, L<Encode::Symbol> |
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703 | |
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704 | =head1 References |
705 | |
706 | =over 2 |
707 | |
708 | =item ECMA |
709 | |
710 | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
711 | L<http://www.ecma.ch> |
712 | |
713 | =over 2 |
714 | |
715 | =item EMCA-035 (eq C<ISO-2022>) |
716 | |
717 | L<http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-035.HTM> |
718 | |
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719 | The very specification of ISO-2022 is available from the link above. |
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720 | |
721 | =back |
722 | |
723 | =item IANA |
724 | |
725 | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
726 | L<http://www.iana.org/> |
727 | |
728 | =over 2 |
729 | |
730 | =item Assigned Charset Names by IANA |
731 | |
732 | L<http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets> |
733 | |
734 | Most of the C<canonical names> in Encode derive from this list |
735 | so you can directly apply the string you have extracted from MIME |
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736 | header of mails and web pages. |
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737 | |
738 | =back |
739 | |
740 | =item ISO |
741 | |
742 | International Organization for Standardization |
743 | L<http://www.iso.ch/> |
744 | |
745 | =item RFC |
746 | |
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747 | Request For Comments -- need I say more? |
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748 | L<http://www.rfc.net/>, L<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/> |
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749 | |
750 | =item UC |
751 | |
752 | Unicode Consortium |
753 | L<http://www.unicode.org/> |
754 | |
755 | =over 2 |
756 | |
757 | =item Unicode Glossary |
758 | |
759 | L<http://www.unicode.org/glossary/> |
760 | |
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761 | The glossary of this document is based upon this site. |
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762 | |
763 | =back |
764 | |
765 | =back |
766 | |
767 | =head2 Other Notable Sites |
768 | |
769 | =over 2 |
770 | |
771 | =item czyborra.com |
772 | |
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773 | L<http://czyborra.com/> |
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774 | |
775 | Contains a a lot of useful information, especially gory details of ISO |
776 | vs. vendor mappings. |
777 | |
778 | =item CJK.inf |
779 | |
780 | L<http://www.oreilly.com/people/authors/lunde/cjk_inf.html> |
781 | |
782 | Somewhat obsolete (last update in 1996), but still useful. Also try |
783 | |
784 | L<ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/nutshell/cjkv/pdf/GB18030_Summary.pdf> |
785 | |
786 | You will find brief info on C<EUC-CN>, C<GBK> and mostly on C<GB 18030> |
787 | |
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788 | =item Jungshik Shin's Hangul FAQ |
789 | |
790 | L<http://jshin.net/faq> |
791 | |
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792 | And especially it's subject 8. |
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793 | |
794 | L<http://jshin.net/faq/qa8.html> |
795 | |
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796 | A comprehensive overview of the Korean (C<KS *>) standards. |
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797 | |
798 | =back |
799 | |
800 | =head2 Offline sources |
801 | |
802 | =over 2 |
803 | |
804 | =item C<CJKV Information Processing> by Ken Lunde |
805 | |
806 | CJKV Information Processing |
807 | 1999 O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN : 1-56592-224-7 |
808 | |
809 | The modern successor of the C<CJK.inf>. |
810 | |
811 | Features a comprehensive coverage on CJKV character sets and |
812 | encodings along with many other issues faced by anyone trying |
813 | to better support CJKV languages/scripts in all the areas of |
814 | information processing. |
815 | |
816 | To purchase this book visit |
817 | L<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cjkvinfo/> |
818 | |
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819 | =back |
820 | |
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821 | =cut |
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822 | |
823 | I could not find this page because the hostname doesn't resolve! |
824 | |
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825 | Brief description for most of the mentioned CJK encodings |
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826 | L<http://www.debian.org.ru/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-codes.html> |