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1 | =head1 NAME |
2 | |
3 | perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl |
4 | |
5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
6 | |
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7 | =head2 Important Caveats |
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8 | |
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9 | WARNING: While the implementation of Unicode support in Perl is now |
10 | fairly complete it is still evolving to some extent. |
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11 | |
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12 | In particular the way Unicode is handled on EBCDIC platforms is still |
13 | rather experimental. On such a platform references to UTF-8 encoding |
14 | in this document and elsewhere should be read as meaning UTF-EBCDIC as |
15 | specified in Unicode Technical Report 16 unless ASCII vs EBCDIC issues |
16 | are specifically discussed. There is no C<utfebcdic> pragma or |
17 | ":utfebcdic" layer, rather "utf8" and ":utf8" are re-used to mean |
18 | platform's "natural" 8-bit encoding of Unicode. See L<perlebcdic> for |
19 | more discussion of the issues. |
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20 | |
21 | The following areas are still under development. |
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22 | |
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23 | =over 4 |
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24 | |
25 | =item Input and Output Disciplines |
26 | |
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27 | A filehandle can be marked as containing perl's internal Unicode |
28 | encoding (UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC) by opening it with the ":utf8" layer. |
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29 | Other encodings can be converted to perl's encoding on input, or from |
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30 | perl's encoding on output by use of the ":encoding()" layer. There is |
31 | not yet a clean way to mark the Perl source itself as being in an |
32 | particular encoding. |
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33 | |
34 | =item Regular Expressions |
35 | |
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36 | The regular expression compiler does now attempt to produce |
37 | polymorphic opcodes. That is the pattern should now adapt to the data |
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38 | and automatically switch to the Unicode character scheme when |
39 | presented with Unicode data, or a traditional byte scheme when |
40 | presented with byte data. The implementation is still new and |
41 | (particularly on EBCDIC platforms) may need further work. |
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42 | |
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43 | =item C<use utf8> still needed to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts |
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44 | |
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45 | The C<utf8> pragma implements the tables used for Unicode support. |
46 | These tables are automatically loaded on demand, so the C<utf8> pragma |
47 | need not normally be used. |
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48 | |
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49 | However, as a compatibility measure, this pragma must be explicitly |
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50 | used to enable recognition of UTF-8 in the Perl scripts themselves on |
51 | ASCII based machines or recognize UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC based machines. |
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52 | B<NOTE: this should be the only place where an explicit C<use utf8> is |
53 | needed>. |
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54 | |
55 | =back |
56 | |
57 | =head2 Byte and Character semantics |
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58 | |
59 | Beginning with version 5.6, Perl uses logically wide characters to |
60 | represent strings internally. This internal representation of strings |
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61 | uses either the UTF-8 or the UTF-EBCDIC encoding. |
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62 | |
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63 | In future, Perl-level operations can be expected to work with |
64 | characters rather than bytes, in general. |
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65 | |
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66 | However, as strictly an interim compatibility measure, Perl aims to |
67 | provide a safe migration path from byte semantics to character |
68 | semantics for programs. For operations where Perl can unambiguously |
69 | decide that the input data is characters, Perl now switches to |
70 | character semantics. For operations where this determination cannot |
71 | be made without additional information from the user, Perl decides in |
72 | favor of compatibility, and chooses to use byte semantics. |
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73 | |
74 | This behavior preserves compatibility with earlier versions of Perl, |
75 | which allowed byte semantics in Perl operations, but only as long as |
76 | none of the program's inputs are marked as being as source of Unicode |
77 | character data. Such data may come from filehandles, from calls to |
78 | external programs, from information provided by the system (such as %ENV), |
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79 | or from literals and constants in the source text. |
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80 | |
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81 | If the C<-C> command line switch is used, (or the |
82 | ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS} global flag is set to C<1>), all system calls |
83 | will use the corresponding wide character APIs. Note that this is |
84 | currently only implemented on Windows since other platforms API |
85 | standard on this area. |
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86 | |
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87 | Regardless of the above, the C<bytes> pragma can always be used to |
88 | force byte semantics in a particular lexical scope. See L<bytes>. |
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89 | |
90 | The C<utf8> pragma is primarily a compatibility device that enables |
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91 | recognition of UTF-(8|EBCDIC) in literals encountered by the parser. |
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92 | Note that this pragma is only required until a future version of Perl |
93 | in which character semantics will become the default. This pragma may |
94 | then become a no-op. See L<utf8>. |
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95 | |
96 | Unless mentioned otherwise, Perl operators will use character semantics |
97 | when they are dealing with Unicode data, and byte semantics otherwise. |
98 | Thus, character semantics for these operations apply transparently; if |
99 | the input data came from a Unicode source (for example, by adding a |
100 | character encoding discipline to the filehandle whence it came, or a |
101 | literal UTF-8 string constant in the program), character semantics |
102 | apply; otherwise, byte semantics are in effect. To force byte semantics |
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103 | on Unicode data, the C<bytes> pragma should be used. |
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104 | |
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105 | Notice that if you have a string with byte semantics and you then |
106 | add character data into it, the bytes will be upgraded I<as if they |
107 | were ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)> (or if in EBCDIC, after a translation |
108 | to ISO 8859-1). |
109 | |
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110 | Under character semantics, many operations that formerly operated on |
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111 | bytes change to operating on characters. For ASCII data this makes no |
112 | difference, because UTF-8 stores ASCII in single bytes, but for any |
113 | character greater than C<chr(127)>, the character B<may> be stored in |
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114 | a sequence of two or more bytes, all of which have the high bit set. |
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115 | |
116 | For C1 controls or Latin 1 characters on an EBCDIC platform the |
117 | character may be stored in a UTF-EBCDIC multi byte sequence. But by |
118 | and large, the user need not worry about this, because Perl hides it |
119 | from the user. A character in Perl is logically just a number ranging |
120 | from 0 to 2**32 or so. Larger characters encode to longer sequences |
121 | of bytes internally, but again, this is just an internal detail which |
122 | is hidden at the Perl level. |
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123 | |
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124 | =head2 Effects of character semantics |
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125 | |
126 | Character semantics have the following effects: |
127 | |
128 | =over 4 |
129 | |
130 | =item * |
131 | |
132 | Strings and patterns may contain characters that have an ordinal value |
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133 | larger than 255. |
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134 | |
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135 | Presuming you use a Unicode editor to edit your program, such |
136 | characters will typically occur directly within the literal strings as |
137 | UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC platforms) characters, but you can also |
138 | specify a particular character with an extension of the C<\x> |
139 | notation. UTF-X characters are specified by putting the hexadecimal |
140 | code within curlies after the C<\x>. For instance, a Unicode smiley |
141 | face is C<\x{263A}>. |
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142 | |
143 | =item * |
144 | |
145 | Identifiers within the Perl script may contain Unicode alphanumeric |
146 | characters, including ideographs. (You are currently on your own when |
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147 | it comes to using the canonical forms of characters--Perl doesn't |
148 | (yet) attempt to canonicalize variable names for you.) |
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149 | |
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150 | =item * |
151 | |
152 | Regular expressions match characters instead of bytes. For instance, |
153 | "." matches a character instead of a byte. (However, the C<\C> pattern |
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154 | is provided to force a match a single byte ("C<char>" in C, hence C<\C>).) |
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155 | |
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156 | =item * |
157 | |
158 | Character classes in regular expressions match characters instead of |
159 | bytes, and match against the character properties specified in the |
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160 | Unicode properties database. So C<\w> can be used to match an |
161 | ideograph, for instance. |
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162 | |
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163 | =item * |
164 | |
165 | Named Unicode properties and block ranges make be used as character |
166 | classes via the new C<\p{}> (matches property) and C<\P{}> (doesn't |
167 | match property) constructs. For instance, C<\p{Lu}> matches any |
168 | character with the Unicode uppercase property, while C<\p{M}> matches |
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169 | any mark character. Single letter properties may omit the brackets, |
170 | so that can be written C<\pM> also. Many predefined character classes |
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171 | are available, such as C<\p{IsMirrored}> and C<\p{InTibetan}>. |
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172 | |
173 | The C<\p{Is...}> test for "general properties" such as "letter", |
174 | "digit", while the C<\p{In...}> test for Unicode scripts and blocks. |
175 | |
176 | The official Unicode script and block names have spaces and |
177 | dashes and separators, but for convenience you can have |
178 | dashes, spaces, and underbars at every word division, and |
179 | you need not care about correct casing. It is recommended, |
180 | however, that for consistency you use the following naming: |
181 | the official Unicode script or block name (see below for |
182 | the additional rules that apply to block names), with the whitespace |
183 | and dashes removed, and the words "uppercase-first-lowercase-otherwise". |
184 | That is, "Latin-1 Supplement" becomes "Latin1Supplement". |
185 | |
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186 | You can also negate both C<\p{}> and C<\P{}> by introducing a caret |
187 | (^) between the first curly and the property name: C<\p{^InTamil}> is |
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188 | equal to C<\P{InTamil}>. |
189 | |
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190 | The C<In> and C<Is> can be left out: C<\p{Greek}> is equal to |
191 | C<\p{InGreek}>, C<\P{Pd}> is equal to C<\P{Pd}>. |
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192 | |
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193 | Here is the list as of Unicode 3.1.1 (the two-letter classes) and as |
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194 | defined by Perl (the one-letter classes). |
195 | |
196 | L Letter |
197 | Lu Letter, Uppercase |
198 | Ll Letter, Lowercase |
199 | Lt Letter, Titlecase |
200 | Lm Letter, Modifier |
201 | Lo Letter, Other |
202 | M Mark |
203 | Mn Mark, Non-Spacing |
204 | Mc Mark, Spacing Combining |
205 | Me Mark, Enclosing |
206 | N Number |
207 | Nd Number, Decimal Digit |
208 | Nl Number, Letter |
209 | No Number, Other |
210 | P Punctuation |
211 | Pc Punctuation, Connector |
212 | Pd Punctuation, Dash |
213 | Ps Punctuation, Open |
214 | Pe Punctuation, Close |
215 | Pi Punctuation, Initial quote |
216 | (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage) |
217 | Pf Punctuation, Final quote |
218 | (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage) |
219 | Po Punctuation, Other |
220 | S Symbol |
221 | Sm Symbol, Math |
222 | Sc Symbol, Currency |
223 | Sk Symbol, Modifier |
224 | So Symbol, Other |
225 | Z Separator |
226 | Zs Separator, Space |
227 | Zl Separator, Line |
228 | Zp Separator, Paragraph |
229 | C Other |
230 | Cc Other, Control |
231 | Cf Other, Format |
232 | Cs Other, Surrogate |
233 | Co Other, Private Use |
234 | Cn Other, Not Assigned |
235 | |
236 | There's also C<L&> which is an alias for C<Ll>, C<Lu>, and C<Lt>. |
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237 | |
238 | Additionally, because scripts differ in their directionality |
239 | (for example Hebrew is written right to left), all characters |
240 | have their directionality defined: |
241 | |
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242 | BidiL Left-to-Right |
243 | BidiLRE Left-to-Right Embedding |
244 | BidiLRO Left-to-Right Override |
245 | BidiR Right-to-Left |
246 | BidiAL Right-to-Left Arabic |
247 | BidiRLE Right-to-Left Embedding |
248 | BidiRLO Right-to-Left Override |
249 | BidiPDF Pop Directional Format |
250 | BidiEN European Number |
251 | BidiES European Number Separator |
252 | BidiET European Number Terminator |
253 | BidiAN Arabic Number |
254 | BidiCS Common Number Separator |
255 | BidiNSM Non-Spacing Mark |
256 | BidiBN Boundary Neutral |
257 | BidiB Paragraph Separator |
258 | BidiS Segment Separator |
259 | BidiWS Whitespace |
260 | BidiON Other Neutrals |
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261 | |
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262 | =head2 Scripts |
263 | |
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264 | The scripts available for C<\p{In...}> and C<\P{In...}>, for example |
265 | \p{InCyrillic>, are as follows, for example C<\p{InLatin}> or C<\P{InHan}>: |
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266 | |
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267 | Latin |
268 | Greek |
269 | Cyrillic |
270 | Armenian |
271 | Hebrew |
272 | Arabic |
273 | Syriac |
274 | Thaana |
275 | Devanagari |
276 | Bengali |
277 | Gurmukhi |
278 | Gujarati |
279 | Oriya |
280 | Tamil |
281 | Telugu |
282 | Kannada |
283 | Malayalam |
284 | Sinhala |
285 | Thai |
286 | Lao |
287 | Tibetan |
288 | Myanmar |
289 | Georgian |
290 | Hangul |
291 | Ethiopic |
292 | Cherokee |
293 | CanadianAboriginal |
294 | Ogham |
295 | Runic |
296 | Khmer |
297 | Mongolian |
298 | Hiragana |
299 | Katakana |
300 | Bopomofo |
301 | Han |
302 | Yi |
303 | OldItalic |
304 | Gothic |
305 | Deseret |
306 | Inherited |
307 | |
308 | There are also extended property classes that supplement the basic |
309 | properties, defined by the F<PropList> Unicode database: |
310 | |
311 | White_space |
312 | Bidi_Control |
313 | Join_Control |
314 | Dash |
315 | Hyphen |
316 | Quotation_Mark |
317 | Other_Math |
318 | Hex_Digit |
319 | ASCII_Hex_Digit |
320 | Other_Alphabetic |
321 | Ideographic |
322 | Diacritic |
323 | Extender |
324 | Other_Lowercase |
325 | Other_Uppercase |
326 | Noncharacter_Code_Point |
327 | |
328 | and further derived properties: |
329 | |
330 | Alphabetic Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm + Lo + Other_Alphabetic |
331 | Lowercase Ll + Other_Lowercase |
332 | Uppercase Lu + Other_Uppercase |
333 | Math Sm + Other_Math |
334 | |
335 | ID_Start Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm + Lo + Nl |
336 | ID_Continue ID_Start + Mn + Mc + Nd + Pc |
337 | |
338 | Any Any character |
339 | Assigned Any non-Cn character |
340 | Common Any character (or unassigned code point) |
341 | not explicitly assigned to a script. |
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342 | |
343 | =head2 Blocks |
344 | |
345 | In addition to B<scripts>, Unicode also defines B<blocks> of |
346 | characters. The difference between scripts and blocks is that the |
347 | former concept is closer to natural languages, while the latter |
348 | concept is more an artificial grouping based on groups of 256 Unicode |
349 | characters. For example, the C<Latin> script contains letters from |
350 | many blocks, but it does not contain all the characters from those |
351 | blocks, it does not for example contain digits. |
352 | |
353 | For more about scripts see the UTR #24: |
354 | http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/ |
355 | For more about blocks see |
356 | http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Blocks.txt |
357 | |
358 | Because there are overlaps in naming (there are, for example, both |
359 | a script called C<Katakana> and a block called C<Katakana>, the block |
360 | version has C<Block> appended to its name, C<\p{InKatakanaBlock}>. |
361 | |
362 | Notice that this definition was introduced in Perl 5.8.0: in Perl |
363 | 5.6.0 only the blocks were used; in Perl 5.8.0 scripts became the |
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364 | preferential Unicode character class definition; this meant that |
365 | the definitions of some character classes changed (the ones in the |
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366 | below list that have the C<Block> appended). |
367 | |
368 | BasicLatin |
369 | Latin1Supplement |
370 | LatinExtendedA |
371 | LatinExtendedB |
372 | IPAExtensions |
373 | SpacingModifierLetters |
374 | CombiningDiacriticalMarks |
375 | GreekBlock |
376 | CyrillicBlock |
377 | ArmenianBlock |
378 | HebrewBlock |
379 | ArabicBlock |
380 | SyriacBlock |
381 | ThaanaBlock |
382 | DevanagariBlock |
383 | BengaliBlock |
384 | GurmukhiBlock |
385 | GujaratiBlock |
386 | OriyaBlock |
387 | TamilBlock |
388 | TeluguBlock |
389 | KannadaBlock |
390 | MalayalamBlock |
391 | SinhalaBlock |
392 | ThaiBlock |
393 | LaoBlock |
394 | TibetanBlock |
395 | MyanmarBlock |
396 | GeorgianBlock |
397 | HangulJamo |
398 | EthiopicBlock |
399 | CherokeeBlock |
400 | UnifiedCanadianAboriginalSyllabics |
401 | OghamBlock |
402 | RunicBlock |
403 | KhmerBlock |
404 | MongolianBlock |
405 | LatinExtendedAdditional |
406 | GreekExtended |
407 | GeneralPunctuation |
408 | SuperscriptsandSubscripts |
409 | CurrencySymbols |
410 | CombiningMarksforSymbols |
411 | LetterlikeSymbols |
412 | NumberForms |
413 | Arrows |
414 | MathematicalOperators |
415 | MiscellaneousTechnical |
416 | ControlPictures |
417 | OpticalCharacterRecognition |
418 | EnclosedAlphanumerics |
419 | BoxDrawing |
420 | BlockElements |
421 | GeometricShapes |
422 | MiscellaneousSymbols |
423 | Dingbats |
424 | BraillePatterns |
425 | CJKRadicalsSupplement |
426 | KangxiRadicals |
427 | IdeographicDescriptionCharacters |
428 | CJKSymbolsandPunctuation |
429 | HiraganaBlock |
430 | KatakanaBlock |
431 | BopomofoBlock |
432 | HangulCompatibilityJamo |
433 | Kanbun |
434 | BopomofoExtended |
435 | EnclosedCJKLettersandMonths |
436 | CJKCompatibility |
437 | CJKUnifiedIdeographsExtensionA |
438 | CJKUnifiedIdeographs |
439 | YiSyllables |
440 | YiRadicals |
441 | HangulSyllables |
442 | HighSurrogates |
443 | HighPrivateUseSurrogates |
444 | LowSurrogates |
445 | PrivateUse |
446 | CJKCompatibilityIdeographs |
447 | AlphabeticPresentationForms |
448 | ArabicPresentationFormsA |
449 | CombiningHalfMarks |
450 | CJKCompatibilityForms |
451 | SmallFormVariants |
452 | ArabicPresentationFormsB |
453 | Specials |
454 | HalfwidthandFullwidthForms |
455 | OldItalicBlock |
456 | GothicBlock |
457 | DeseretBlock |
458 | ByzantineMusicalSymbols |
459 | MusicalSymbols |
460 | MathematicalAlphanumericSymbols |
461 | CJKUnifiedIdeographsExtensionB |
462 | CJKCompatibilityIdeographsSupplement |
463 | Tags |
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465 | =item * |
466 | |
467 | The special pattern C<\X> match matches any extended Unicode sequence |
468 | (a "combining character sequence" in Standardese), where the first |
469 | character is a base character and subsequent characters are mark |
470 | characters that apply to the base character. It is equivalent to |
471 | C<(?:\PM\pM*)>. |
472 | |
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473 | =item * |
474 | |
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475 | The C<tr///> operator translates characters instead of bytes. Note |
476 | that the C<tr///CU> functionality has been removed, as the interface |
477 | was a mistake. For similar functionality see pack('U0', ...) and |
478 | pack('C0', ...). |
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479 | |
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480 | =item * |
481 | |
482 | Case translation operators use the Unicode case translation tables |
483 | when provided character input. Note that C<uc()> translates to |
484 | uppercase, while C<ucfirst> translates to titlecase (for languages |
485 | that make the distinction). Naturally the corresponding backslash |
486 | sequences have the same semantics. |
487 | |
488 | =item * |
489 | |
490 | Most operators that deal with positions or lengths in the string will |
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491 | automatically switch to using character positions, including |
492 | C<chop()>, C<substr()>, C<pos()>, C<index()>, C<rindex()>, |
493 | C<sprintf()>, C<write()>, and C<length()>. Operators that |
494 | specifically don't switch include C<vec()>, C<pack()>, and |
495 | C<unpack()>. Operators that really don't care include C<chomp()>, as |
496 | well as any other operator that treats a string as a bucket of bits, |
497 | such as C<sort()>, and the operators dealing with filenames. |
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498 | |
499 | =item * |
500 | |
501 | The C<pack()>/C<unpack()> letters "C<c>" and "C<C>" do I<not> change, |
502 | since they're often used for byte-oriented formats. (Again, think |
503 | "C<char>" in the C language.) However, there is a new "C<U>" specifier |
504 | that will convert between UTF-8 characters and integers. (It works |
505 | outside of the utf8 pragma too.) |
506 | |
507 | =item * |
508 | |
509 | The C<chr()> and C<ord()> functions work on characters. This is like |
510 | C<pack("U")> and C<unpack("U")>, not like C<pack("C")> and |
511 | C<unpack("C")>. In fact, the latter are how you now emulate |
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512 | byte-oriented C<chr()> and C<ord()> for Unicode strings. |
513 | (Note that this reveals the internal UTF-8 encoding of strings and |
514 | you are not supposed to do that unless you know what you are doing.) |
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515 | |
516 | =item * |
517 | |
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518 | The bit string operators C<& | ^ ~> can operate on character data. |
519 | However, for backward compatibility reasons (bit string operations |
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520 | when the characters all are less than 256 in ordinal value) one should |
521 | not mix C<~> (the bit complement) and characters both less than 256 and |
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522 | equal or greater than 256. Most importantly, the DeMorgan's laws |
523 | (C<~($x|$y) eq ~$x&~$y>, C<~($x&$y) eq ~$x|~$y>) won't hold. |
524 | Another way to look at this is that the complement cannot return |
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525 | B<both> the 8-bit (byte) wide bit complement B<and> the full character |
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526 | wide bit complement. |
527 | |
528 | =item * |
529 | |
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530 | lc(), uc(), lcfirst(), and ucfirst() work only for some of the |
531 | simplest cases, where the mapping goes from a single Unicode character |
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532 | to another single Unicode character, and where the mapping does not |
533 | depend on surrounding characters, or on locales. More complex cases, |
534 | where for example one character maps into several, are not yet |
535 | implemented. See the Unicode Technical Report #21, Case Mappings, |
536 | for more details. The Unicode::UCD module (part of Perl since 5.8.0) |
537 | casespec() and casefold() interfaces supply information about the more |
538 | complex cases. |
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539 | |
540 | =item * |
541 | |
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542 | And finally, C<scalar reverse()> reverses by character rather than by byte. |
543 | |
544 | =back |
545 | |
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546 | =head2 Character encodings for input and output |
547 | |
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548 | See L<Encode>. |
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549 | |
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550 | =head1 CAVEATS |
551 | |
552 | As of yet, there is no method for automatically coercing input and |
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553 | output to some encoding other than UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC. This is planned |
554 | in the near future, however. |
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555 | |
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556 | Whether an arbitrary piece of data will be treated as "characters" or |
557 | "bytes" by internal operations cannot be divined at the current time. |
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558 | |
559 | Use of locales with utf8 may lead to odd results. Currently there is |
560 | some attempt to apply 8-bit locale info to characters in the range |
561 | 0..255, but this is demonstrably incorrect for locales that use |
562 | characters above that range (when mapped into Unicode). It will also |
563 | tend to run slower. Avoidance of locales is strongly encouraged. |
564 | |
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565 | =head1 UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT LEVEL |
566 | |
567 | The following list of Unicode regular expression support describes |
568 | feature by feature the Unicode support implemented in Perl as of Perl |
569 | 5.8.0. The "Level N" and the section numbers refer to the Unicode |
570 | Technical Report 18, "Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines". |
571 | |
572 | =over 4 |
573 | |
574 | =item * |
575 | |
576 | Level 1 - Basic Unicode Support |
577 | |
578 | 2.1 Hex Notation - done [1] |
579 | Named Notation - done [2] |
580 | 2.2 Categories - done [3][4] |
581 | 2.3 Subtraction - MISSING [5][6] |
582 | 2.4 Simple Word Boundaries - done [7] |
583 | 2.5 Simple Loose Matches - MISSING [8] |
584 | 2.6 End of Line - MISSING [9][10] |
585 | |
586 | [ 1] \x{...} |
587 | [ 2] \N{...} |
588 | [ 3] . \p{Is...} \P{Is...} |
589 | [ 4] now scripts (see UTR#24 Script Names) in addition to blocks |
590 | [ 5] have negation |
591 | [ 6] can use look-ahead to emulate subtracion |
592 | [ 7] include Letters in word characters |
593 | [ 8] see UTR#21 Case Mappings |
594 | [ 9] see UTR#13 Unicode Newline Guidelines |
595 | [10] should do ^ and $ also on \x{2028} and \x{2029} |
596 | |
597 | =item * |
598 | |
599 | Level 2 - Extended Unicode Support |
600 | |
601 | 3.1 Surrogates - MISSING |
602 | 3.2 Canonical Equivalents - MISSING [11][12] |
603 | 3.3 Locale-Independent Graphemes - MISSING [13] |
604 | 3.4 Locale-Independent Words - MISSING [14] |
605 | 3.5 Locale-Independent Loose Matches - MISSING [15] |
606 | |
607 | [11] see UTR#15 Unicode Normalization |
608 | [12] have Unicode::Normalize but not integrated to regexes |
609 | [13] have \X but at this level . should equal that |
610 | [14] need three classes, not just \w and \W |
611 | [15] see UTR#21 Case Mappings |
612 | |
613 | =item * |
614 | |
615 | Level 3 - Locale-Sensitive Support |
616 | |
617 | 4.1 Locale-Dependent Categories - MISSING |
618 | 4.2 Locale-Dependent Graphemes - MISSING [16][17] |
619 | 4.3 Locale-Dependent Words - MISSING |
620 | 4.4 Locale-Dependent Loose Matches - MISSING |
621 | 4.5 Locale-Dependent Ranges - MISSING |
622 | |
623 | [16] see UTR#10 Unicode Collation Algorithms |
624 | [17] have Unicode::Collate but not integrated to regexes |
625 | |
626 | =back |
627 | |
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628 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
629 | |
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630 | L<bytes>, L<utf8>, L<perlretut>, L<perlvar/"${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}"> |
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631 | |
632 | =cut |