3 if ( ord("A") == 193 ) {
4 die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n";
10 our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.2 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r };
12 XSLoader::load( __PACKAGE__, $VERSION );
19 Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
23 use Encode qw/encode decode/;
24 $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
25 $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
29 This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used
30 in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
31 Encodings supported are as follows.
33 Canonical Alias Description
34 --------------------------------------------------------------------
35 big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions)
38 big5-hkscs /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i
40 Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong
41 MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
43 = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings
44 --------------------------------------------------------------------
46 To find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>.
50 Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character), C<CCCII>
51 (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), C<BIG5PLUS>
52 (CMEX's Big5+) and C<BIG5EXT> (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately
53 on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains
54 extra China-based encodings.
58 Since the original C<big5> encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere
59 (glibc and DOS-based systems uses C<big5> to mean C<big5-eten>; Microsoft
60 uses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias
61 C<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original
64 The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643>
65 manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains
68 The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even
69 though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See
71 L<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
73 to find out why it is implemented that way.