4 die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n";
7 our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 0.98 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
11 XSLoader::load('Encode::TW',$VERSION);
17 Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
21 use Encode qw/encode decode/;
22 $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
23 $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
27 This module implements Taiwan-based Chinese charset encodings.
28 Encodings supported are as follows.
30 Canonical Alias Description
31 --------------------------------------------------------------------
32 big5 /big-?5$/i The original Big5 encoding
33 big5-hkscs /big5-hk(scs)?$/i Big5 plus Cantonese characters in
36 (Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings)
37 --------------------------------------------------------------------
39 To find how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>.
43 Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character) and C<BIG5PLUS>
44 (CMEX's Big5+) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name
45 L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains extra China-based encodings.
49 The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete (only the first two planes,
50 C<11643-1> and C<11643-2>, exist in the distribution). For common CNS11643
51 manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains
54 ASCII part (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though it
55 conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See
57 L<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
59 to find why it is implemented that way.