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[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / ext / Encode / CN / CN.pm
1 package Encode::CN;
2 our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 0.94 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
3
4 use Encode;
5 use Encode::CN::HZ;
6 use XSLoader;
7 XSLoader::load('Encode::CN',$VERSION);
8
9 Encode::define_alias( qr/euc.*cn$/i     => '"euc-cn"' );
10 Encode::define_alias( qr/cn.*euc/i      => '"euc-cn"' );
11
12 1;
13 __END__
14 =head1 NAME
15
16 Encode::CN - China-based Chinese Encodings
17
18 =head1 SYNOPSIS
19
20     use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
21     $euc_cn = encode("euc-cn", $utf8);   # loads Encode::CN implicitly
22     $utf8   = decode("euc-cn", $euc_cn); # ditto
23
24 =head1 DESCRIPTION
25
26 This module implements China-based Chinese charset encodings.
27 Encodings supported are as follows.
28
29   Canonical   Alias             Description
30   --------------------------------------------------------------------
31   euc-cn      /euc.*cn$/i       EUC (Extended Unix Character)
32               /cn.*euc$/i
33   gb2312                        The raw (low-bit) GB2312 character map
34   gb12345                       Traditional chinese counterpart to 
35                                 GB2312 (raw)
36   iso-ir-165                    GB2312 + GB6345 + GB8565 + additions
37   cp936                         Code Page 936, also known as GBK 
38                                 (Extended GuoBiao)
39   hz                            7-bit escaped GB2312 encoding
40
41 To find how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>.
42
43 =head1 NOTES
44
45 Due to size concerns, C<GB 18030> (an extension to C<GBK>) is distributed
46 separately on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module
47 also contains extra Taiwan-based encodings.
48
49 =head1 BUGS
50
51 ASCII part (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though it
52 conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium.  See
53
54 F<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
55
56 to find why it is implemented that way.
57
58 =head1 SEE ALSO
59
60 L<Encode>
61
62 =cut