4 die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n";
7 our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.25 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
11 XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__,$VERSION);
18 Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
22 use Encode qw/encode decode/;
23 $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
24 $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
28 This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used
29 in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
30 Encodings supported are as follows.
32 Canonical Alias Description
33 --------------------------------------------------------------------
34 big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions)
36 big5-hkscs /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i
37 Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong
38 MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
40 = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings
41 --------------------------------------------------------------------
43 To find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>.
47 Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character), C<CCCII>
48 (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), C<BIG5PLUS>
49 (CMEX's Big5+) and C<BIG5EXT> (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately
50 on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains
51 extra China-based encodings.
55 Since the original C<big5> encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere
56 (glibc and DOS-based systems uses C<big5> to mean C<big5-eten>; Microsoft
57 uses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias
58 C<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original
61 The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643>
62 manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<Encode::HanExtra>, which contains
65 The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even
66 though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See
68 L<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
70 to find out why it is implemented that way.