+#
+# $Id: Encode.pm,v 2.12 2005/09/08 14:17:17 dankogai Exp dankogai $
+#
package Encode;
use strict;
-our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.61 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
-our $DEBUG = 0;
+our $VERSION = sprintf "%d.%02d", q$Revision: 2.12 $ =~ /(\d+)/g;
+sub DEBUG () { 0 }
use XSLoader ();
-XSLoader::load 'Encode';
+XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__, $VERSION);
require Exporter;
use base qw/Exporter/;
our @EXPORT = qw(
decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8
- encodings find_encoding
+ encodings find_encoding clone_encoding
);
-our @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC
- PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF);
-our @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN
+our @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC
+ PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF STOP_AT_PARTIAL);
+our @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN
FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF);
our @EXPORT_OK =
# Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S
-use Carp;
-
our $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193);
use Encode::Alias;
sub encodings
{
my $class = shift;
- my @modules = (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all") ? values %ExtModule : @_;
- for my $mod (@modules){
- $mod =~ s,::,/,g or $mod = "Encode/$mod";
- $mod .= '.pm';
- $DEBUG and warn "about to require $mod;";
- eval { require $mod; };
+ my %enc;
+ if (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all"){
+ %enc = ( %Encoding, %ExtModule );
+ }else{
+ %enc = %Encoding;
+ for my $mod (map {m/::/o ? $_ : "Encode::$_" } @_){
+ DEBUG and warn $mod;
+ for my $enc (keys %ExtModule){
+ $ExtModule{$enc} eq $mod and $enc{$enc} = $mod;
+ }
+ }
}
- my %modules = map {$_ => 1} @modules;
return
sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
- grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode)$/o} keys %Encoding;
+ grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode|Guess)$/o} keys %enc;
}
sub perlio_ok{
$Encoding{$name} = $obj;
my $lc = lc($name);
define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name;
- while (@_)
- {
+ while (@_){
my $alias = shift;
- define_alias($alias,$obj);
+ define_alias($alias, $obj);
}
return $obj;
}
sub getEncoding
{
- my ($class,$name,$skip_external) = @_;
- my $enc;
- if (ref($name) && $name->can('new_sequence'))
- {
- return $name;
- }
+ my ($class, $name, $skip_external) = @_;
+
+ ref($name) && $name->can('renew') and return $name;
+ exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
my $lc = lc $name;
- if (exists $Encoding{$name})
- {
- return $Encoding{$name};
- }
- if (exists $Encoding{$lc})
- {
- return $Encoding{$lc};
- }
+ exists $Encoding{$lc} and return $Encoding{$lc};
my $oc = $class->find_alias($name);
- return $oc if defined $oc;
-
- $oc = $class->find_alias($lc) if $lc ne $name;
- return $oc if defined $oc;
+ defined($oc) and return $oc;
+ $lc ne $name and $oc = $class->find_alias($lc);
+ defined($oc) and return $oc;
unless ($skip_external)
{
if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){
$mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm';
eval{ require $mod; };
- return $Encoding{$name} if exists $Encoding{$name};
+ exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
}
}
return;
}
-sub find_encoding
+sub find_encoding($;$)
{
- my ($name,$skip_external) = @_;
+ my ($name, $skip_external) = @_;
return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external);
}
-sub resolve_alias {
+sub resolve_alias($){
my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
defined $obj and return $obj->name;
return;
}
+sub clone_encoding($){
+ my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
+ ref $obj or return;
+ eval { require Storable };
+ $@ and return;
+ return Storable::dclone($obj);
+}
+
sub encode($$;$)
{
- my ($name,$string,$check) = @_;
+ my ($name, $string, $check) = @_;
+ return undef unless defined $string;
+ $string .= '' if ref $string; # stringify;
$check ||=0;
my $enc = find_encoding($name);
- croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc;
+ unless(defined $enc){
+ require Carp;
+ Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
+ }
my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check);
- return undef if ($check && length($string));
+ $_[1] = $string if $check and !($check & LEAVE_SRC());
return $octets;
}
sub decode($$;$)
{
my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_;
+ return undef unless defined $octets;
+ $octets .= '' if ref $octets;
$check ||=0;
my $enc = find_encoding($name);
- croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc;
+ unless(defined $enc){
+ require Carp;
+ Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
+ }
my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check);
- $_[1] = $octets if $check;
+ $_[1] = $octets if $check and !($check & LEAVE_SRC());
return $string;
}
sub from_to($$$;$)
{
my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_;
+ return undef unless defined $string;
$check ||=0;
my $f = find_encoding($from);
- croak("Unknown encoding '$from'") unless defined $f;
+ unless (defined $f){
+ require Carp;
+ Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$from'");
+ }
my $t = find_encoding($to);
- croak("Unknown encoding '$to'") unless defined $t;
+ unless (defined $t){
+ require Carp;
+ Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$to'");
+ }
my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check);
return undef if ($check && length($string));
$string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
return $str;
}
-sub decode_utf8($)
+sub decode_utf8($;$)
{
- my ($str) = @_;
- return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
- return $str;
+ my ($str, $check) = @_;
+ if ($check){
+ return decode("utf8", $str, $check);
+ }else{
+ return decode("utf8", $str);
+ return $str;
+ }
}
-predefine_encodings();
+predefine_encodings(1);
#
# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed;
#
+
sub predefine_encodings{
+ use Encode::Encoding;
+ no warnings 'redefine';
+ my $use_xs = shift;
if ($ON_EBCDIC) {
# was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC
package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC;
- *name = sub{ shift->{'Name'} };
- *new_sequence = sub{ return $_[0] };
- *needs_lines = sub{ 0 };
- *perlio_ok = sub {
- eval{ require PerlIO::encoding };
- return $@ ? 0 : 1;
- };
+ push @Encode::UTF_EBCDIC::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
*decode = sub{
my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
my $res = '';
$Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC";
} else {
- # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC
package Encode::Internal;
- *name = sub{ shift->{'Name'} };
- *new_sequence = sub{ return $_[0] };
- *needs_lines = sub{ 0 };
- *perlio_ok = sub {
- eval{ require PerlIO::encoding };
- return $@ ? 0 : 1;
- };
+ push @Encode::Internal::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
*decode = sub{
my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
utf8::upgrade($str);
{
# was in Encode::utf8
package Encode::utf8;
- *name = sub{ shift->{'Name'} };
- *new_sequence = sub{ return $_[0] };
- *needs_lines = sub{ 0 };
- *perlio_ok = sub {
- eval{ require PerlIO::encoding };
- return $@ ? 0 : 1;
- };
- *decode = sub{
- my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_;
- my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
- if (defined $str) {
+ push @Encode::utf8::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
+ #
+ if ($use_xs){
+ Encode::DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS on";
+ *decode = \&decode_xs;
+ *encode = \&encode_xs;
+ }else{
+ Encode::DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS off";
+ *decode = sub{
+ my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_;
+ my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
+ if (defined $str) {
+ $_[1] = '' if $chk;
+ return $str;
+ }
+ return undef;
+ };
+ *encode = sub {
+ my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
+ my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
$_[1] = '' if $chk;
- return $str;
+ return $octets;
+ };
+ }
+ *cat_decode = sub{ # ($obj, $dst, $src, $pos, $trm, $chk)
+ my ($obj, undef, undef, $pos, $trm) = @_; # currently ignores $chk
+ my ($rdst, $rsrc, $rpos) = \@_[1,2,3];
+ use bytes;
+ if ((my $npos = index($$rsrc, $trm, $pos)) >= 0) {
+ $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos, $npos - $pos + length($trm));
+ $$rpos = $npos + length($trm);
+ return 1;
}
- return undef;
+ $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos);
+ $$rpos = length($$rsrc);
+ return '';
};
- *encode = sub {
- my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
- my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
- $_[1] = '' if $chk;
- return $octets;
- };
- $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
+ $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
+ $Encode::Encoding{"utf-8-strict"} =
+ bless {Name => "utf-8-strict", strict_utf8 => 1 } => "Encode::utf8";
}
}
=back
-The marker [INTERNAL] marks Internal Implementation Details, in
-general meant only for those who think they know what they are doing,
-and such details may change in future releases.
-
=head1 PERL ENCODING API
=over 2
-=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK])
+=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK])
Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
-For example, to convert (internally UTF-8 encoded) Unicode string to
+For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to
iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
- $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $utf8);
+ $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);
-B<CAVEAT>: When you C<$octets = encode("utf8", $utf8)>, then $octets
-B<ne> $utf8. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
+B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets
+B<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of
the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
-=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets[, CHECK])
+If the $string is C<undef> then C<undef> is returned.
+
+=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK])
Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see
L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
-For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format:
- $utf8 = decode("iso-8859-1", $latin1);
+ $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets);
-B<CAVEAT>: When you C<$utf8 = encode("utf8", $octets)>, then $utf8
-B<may not be equal to> $utf8. Though they both contain the same data,
-the utf8 flag for $utf8 is on unless $octets entirely conststs of
+B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string
+B<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data,
+the utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of
ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
below.
-=item [$length =] from_to($string, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
+If the $string is C<undef> then C<undef> is returned.
+
+=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
-Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. For example, to
-convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets
+must be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal
+format. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250
+encoding:
- from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8");
+ from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250");
and to convert it back:
- from_to($data, "utf8", "iso-8859-1");
+ from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1");
Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable.
-from_to() returns the length of the converted string on success, undef
-otherwise.
+from_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on
+success, I<undef> on error.
-B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but not quite so;
+B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so;
- from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
+ from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
$data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2
-Both #1 and #2 makes $data consists of completely valid UTF-8 string
+Both #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string
but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
$data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters
-that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's superset of UTF-8 and the
-resulting octets are returned as a sequence of bytes. All possible
+that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the
+result is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible
characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]);
equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>.
-decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]); The sequence of octets represented by
+The sequence of octets represented by
$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical
characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so
it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see
=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
-If your perl supports I<PerlIO>, you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
+If your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
are totally identical in their functionality.
# via PerlIO
open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
- while(<>){ print; }
+ while(<$in>){ print $out $_; }
# via from_to
open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
- while(<>){
+ while(<$in>){
from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
+ print $out $_;
}
-Unfortunately, there may be encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
+Unfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
method.
perlio_ok("euc-jp")
Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
-except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. See L<Encode::Encoding> for details.
-
-For gory details, see L<Encode::PerlIO>.
+except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see
+L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>.
=head1 Handling Malformed Data
+The optional I<CHECK> argument tells Encode what to do when it
+encounters malformed data. Without CHECK, Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0 )
+is assumed.
+
+As of version 2.12 Encode supports coderef values for CHECK. See below.
+
=over 2
-The I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it,
-the behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for
-I<CHECK>.
+=item B<NOTE:> Not all encoding support this feature
+
+Some encodings ignore I<CHECK> argument. For example,
+L<Encode::Unicode> ignores I<CHECK> and it always croaks on error.
+
+=back
+
+Now here is the list of I<CHECK> values available
+
+=over 2
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
-If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character>
-in place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings,
-E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, "\x{FFFD}" is used.
-If the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
+If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character> in
+place of a malformed character. When you encode, E<lt>subcharE<gt>
+will be used. When you decode the code point C<0xFFFD> is used. If
+the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
(category utf8) is given.
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
-If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die immediately with an error
+If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error
message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the
-fatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error.
+error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die.
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
-return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when
-an error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with
-everything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data).
-This is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case
-where your source data may contain partial multi-byte character
-sequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width
-buffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this:
-
- my $data = '';
- while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){
- # buffer may end in a partial character so we append
- $data .= $buffer;
- $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, ENCODE::FB_QUIET);
- # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character
+return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when an
+error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with everything
+after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data). This is
+handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case where your
+source data may contain partial multi-byte character sequences,
+(i.e. you are reading with a fixed-width buffer). Here is a sample
+code that does exactly this:
+
+ my $buffer = ''; my $string = '';
+ while(read $fh, $buffer, 256, length($buffer)){
+ $string .= decode($encoding, $buffer, Encode::FB_QUIET);
+ # $buffer now contains the unprocessed partial character
}
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
-When you decode, '\xI<XX>' will be inserted for a malformed character,
-where I<XX> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
-decoded to utf8. And when you encode, '\x{I<xxxx>}' will be inserted,
-where I<xxxx> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
+When you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character,
+where I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
+decoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted,
+where I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
in the character repertoire of the encoding.
HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of
-\x{I<xxxx>}, HTML uses &#I<1234>; where I<1234> is a decimal digit and
-XML uses &#xI<abcd>; where I<abcd> is the hexadecimal digit.
+C<\x{I<HHHH>}>, HTML uses C<&#I<NNN>;> where I<NNN> is a decimal number and
+XML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>;> where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal number.
+
+In Encode 2.10 or later, C<LEAVE_SRC> is also implied.
=item The bitmask
FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
- WARN_ON_ER 0x0002 X
+ WARN_ON_ERR 0x0002 X
RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
- LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
+ LEAVE_SRC 0x0008 X
PERLQQ 0x0100 X
- HTMLCREF 0x0200
- XMLCREF 0x0400
+ HTMLCREF 0x0200
+ XMLCREF 0x0400
+
+=back
-=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
+=head2 coderef for CHECK
-In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
-function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided.
+As of Encode 2.12 CHECK can also be a code reference which takes the
+ord value of unmapped caharacter as an argument and returns a string
+that represents the fallback character. For instance,
+
+ $ascii = encode("ascii", $utf8, sub{ sprintf "<U+%04X>", shift });
+
+Acts like FB_PERLQQ but E<lt>U+I<XXXX>E<gt> is used instead of
+\x{I<XXXX>}.
=head1 Defining Encodings
To define a new encoding, use:
- use Encode qw(define_alias);
+ use Encode qw(define_encoding);
define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
If more than two arguments are provided then additional
-arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>, as for C<define_alias>.
+arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>.
See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
=head1 The UTF-8 flag
Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator
-just compares internal data of the scalars. Now C<eq> means internal
-data equality AND I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I
-will quote page 402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
+just compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with
+perl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration
+of I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page
+402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
=over 2
Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0
was born and many features documented in the book remained
-unimplemented. Perl 5.8 hopefully correct this and the introduction
-of UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think this perl notion of
-byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and character-oriented mode (utf8
+unimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction
+of the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a
+byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8
flag on).
Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
-=item
+=item *
-When you decode, the resuting utf8 flag is on unless you can
+When you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can
unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
dis-ambiguity.
- After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
+After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
---------------------------------------------
In any other Encoding ON
---------------------------------------------
-As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
+As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assume
Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed
UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
+As of perl 5.8.1, L<utf8> also has utf8::is_utf8().
+
=item _utf8_on(STRING)
[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
=back
+=head1 UTF-8 vs. utf8
+
+ ....We now view strings not as sequences of bytes, but as sequences
+ of numbers in the range 0 .. 2**32-1 (or in the case of 64-bit
+ computers, 0 .. 2**64-1) -- Programming Perl, 3rd ed.
+
+That has been the perl's notion of UTF-8 but official UTF-8 is more
+strict; Its ranges is much narrower (0 .. 10FFFF), some sequences are
+not allowed (i.e. Those used in the surrogate pair, 0xFFFE, et al).
+
+Now that is overruled by Larry Wall himself.
+
+ From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
+ Date: December 04, 2004 11:51:58 JST
+ To: perl-unicode@perl.org
+ Subject: Re: Make Encode.pm support the real UTF-8
+ Message-Id: <20041204025158.GA28754@wall.org>
+
+ On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:12:12PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
+ : I've no problem with 'utf8' being perl's unrestricted uft8 encoding,
+ : but "UTF-8" is the name of the standard and should give the
+ : corresponding behaviour.
+
+ For what it's worth, that's how I've always kept them straight in my
+ head.
+
+ Also for what it's worth, Perl 6 will mostly default to strict but
+ make it easy to switch back to lax.
+
+ Larry
+
+Do you copy? As of Perl 5.8.7, B<UTF-8> means strict, official UTF-8
+while B<utf8> means liberal, lax, version thereof. And Encode version
+2.10 or later thus groks the difference between C<UTF-8> and C"utf8".
+
+ encode("utf8", "\x{FFFF_FFFF}", 1); # okay
+ encode("UTF-8", "\x{FFFF_FFFF}", 1); # croaks
+
+C<UTF-8> in Encode is actually a canonical name for C<utf-8-strict>.
+Yes, the hyphen between "UTF" and "8" is important. Without it Encode
+goes "liberal"
+
+ find_encoding("UTF-8")->name # is 'utf-8-strict'
+ find_encoding("utf-8")->name # ditto. names are case insensitive
+ find_encoding("utf8")->name # ditto. "_" are treated as "-"
+ find_encoding("UTF8")->name # is 'utf8'.
+
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Encode::Encoding>,
This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained
by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full
list of people involved. For any questions, use
-E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share share.
+E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share.
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