2 our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 0.94 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
6 XSLoader::load('Encode::TW',$VERSION);
8 Encode::define_alias( qr/big-?5$/i => '"big5"' );
9 Encode::define_alias( qr/big5-hk(?:scs)?/i => '"big5-hkscs"' );
15 Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
19 use Encode qw/encode decode/;
20 $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
21 $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
25 This module implements Taiwan-based Chinese charset encodings.
26 Encodings supported are as follows.
28 Canonical Alias Description
29 --------------------------------------------------------------------
30 big5 /big-?5$/i The original Big5 encoding
31 big5-hkscs /big5-hk(scs)?$/i Big5 plus Cantonese characters in
34 (Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings)
36 To find how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>.
40 Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character) and C<BIG5PLUS>
41 (CMEX's Big5+) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name
42 L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains extra China-based encodings.
46 The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete (only the first two planes,
47 C<11643-1> and C<11643-2>, exist in the distribution). For common CNS11643
48 manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains
51 ASCII part (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though it
52 conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See
54 F<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
56 to find why it is implemented that way.