package Encode;
use strict;
-our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 0.95 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
+our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.61 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
+our $DEBUG = 0;
+use XSLoader ();
+XSLoader::load 'Encode';
-require DynaLoader;
require Exporter;
-
-our @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
+use base qw/Exporter/;
# Public, encouraged API is exported by default
-our @EXPORT = qw (
- encode
- decode
- encode_utf8
- decode_utf8
- find_encoding
- encodings
+
+our @EXPORT = qw(
+ decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8
+ encodings find_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
+ FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF);
+
our @EXPORT_OK =
- qw(
- define_encoding
- define_alias
- from_to
- is_utf8
- is_8bit
- is_16bit
- utf8_upgrade
- utf8_downgrade
- _utf8_on
- _utf8_off
- );
-
-bootstrap Encode ();
+ (
+ qw(
+ _utf8_off _utf8_on define_encoding from_to is_16bit is_8bit
+ is_utf8 perlio_ok resolve_alias utf8_downgrade utf8_upgrade
+ ),
+ @FB_FLAGS, @FB_CONSTS,
+ );
+
+our %EXPORT_TAGS =
+ (
+ all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ],
+ fallbacks => [ @FB_CONSTS ],
+ fallback_all => [ @FB_CONSTS, @FB_FLAGS ],
+ );
# Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S
use Carp;
-use Encode::Alias;
+our $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193);
-# Make a %encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating
-our %encoding;
+use Encode::Alias;
-our %external_tables =
- (
- 'euc-cn' => 'Encode/CN.pm',
- gb2312 => 'Encode/CN.pm',
- gb12345 => 'Encode/CN.pm',
- gbk => 'Encode/CN.pm',
- cp936 => 'Encode/CN.pm',
- 'iso-ir-165' => 'Encode/CN.pm',
- 'euc-jp' => 'Encode/JP.pm',
- 'iso-2022-jp' => 'Encode/JP.pm',
- '7bit-jis' => 'Encode/JP.pm',
- shiftjis => 'Encode/JP.pm',
- macjapan => 'Encode/JP.pm',
- cp932 => 'Encode/JP.pm',
- 'euc-kr' => 'Encode/KR.pm',
- ksc5601 => 'Encode/KR.pm',
- cp949 => 'Encode/KR.pm',
- big5 => 'Encode/TW.pm',
- 'big5-hkscs' => 'Encode/TW.pm',
- cp950 => 'Encode/TW.pm',
- gb18030 => 'Encode/HanExtra.pm',
- big5plus => 'Encode/HanExtra.pm',
- 'euc-tw' => 'Encode/HanExtra.pm',
- );
+# Make a %Encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating
+our %Encoding;
+our %ExtModule;
+require Encode::Config;
+eval { require Encode::ConfigLocal };
sub encodings
{
- my ($class) = @_;
- return
- map { $_->[0] }
- sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
- map { [$_, lc $_] }
- grep { $_ ne 'Internal' }
- keys %encoding;
+ 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 $mod; };
+ }
+ my %modules = map {$_ => 1} @modules;
+ return
+ sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
+ grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode)$/o} keys %Encoding;
+}
+
+sub perlio_ok{
+ my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]);
+ $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok();
+ return 0; # safety net
}
sub define_encoding
{
my $obj = shift;
my $name = shift;
- $encoding{$name} = $obj;
+ $Encoding{$name} = $obj;
my $lc = lc($name);
define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name;
while (@_)
return $name;
}
my $lc = lc $name;
- if (exists $encoding{$name})
+ if (exists $Encoding{$name})
{
- return $encoding{$name};
+ return $Encoding{$name};
}
- if (exists $encoding{$lc})
+ if (exists $Encoding{$lc})
{
- return $encoding{$lc};
+ return $Encoding{$lc};
}
- my $oc = $class->findAlias($name);
+ my $oc = $class->find_alias($name);
return $oc if defined $oc;
- $oc = $class->findAlias($lc) if $lc ne $name;
+ $oc = $class->find_alias($lc) if $lc ne $name;
return $oc if defined $oc;
- if (!$skip_external and exists $external_tables{$lc})
+ unless ($skip_external)
{
- require $external_tables{$lc};
- return $encoding{$name} if exists $encoding{$name};
+ if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){
+ $mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm';
+ eval{ require $mod; };
+ return $Encoding{$name} if exists $Encoding{$name};
+ }
}
-
return;
}
return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external);
}
-sub encode
+sub resolve_alias {
+ my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
+ defined $obj and return $obj->name;
+ return;
+}
+
+sub encode($$;$)
{
my ($name,$string,$check) = @_;
+ $check ||=0;
my $enc = find_encoding($name);
croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc;
my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check);
return $octets;
}
-sub decode
+sub decode($$;$)
{
my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_;
+ $check ||=0;
my $enc = find_encoding($name);
croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc;
my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check);
return $string;
}
-sub from_to
+sub from_to($$$;$)
{
my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_;
+ $check ||=0;
my $f = find_encoding($from);
croak("Unknown encoding '$from'") unless defined $f;
my $t = find_encoding($to);
croak("Unknown encoding '$to'") unless defined $t;
my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check);
return undef if ($check && length($string));
- $string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
+ $string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
return undef if ($check && length($uni));
- return length($_[0] = $string);
+ return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ;
}
-sub encode_utf8
+sub encode_utf8($)
{
my ($str) = @_;
- utf8::encode($str);
+ utf8::encode($str);
return $str;
}
-sub decode_utf8
+sub decode_utf8($)
{
my ($str) = @_;
return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
return $str;
}
-require Encode::Encoding;
-require Encode::XS;
-require Encode::Internal;
-require Encode::Unicode;
-require Encode::utf8;
-require Encode::iso10646_1;
-require Encode::ucs2_le;
+predefine_encodings();
+
+#
+# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed;
+#
+sub predefine_encodings{
+ if ($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 $@ ? 0 : 1;
+ };
+ *decode = sub{
+ my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
+ my $res = '';
+ for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
+ $res .=
+ chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
+ }
+ $_[1] = '' if $chk;
+ return $res;
+ };
+ *encode = sub{
+ my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
+ my $res = '';
+ for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
+ $res .=
+ chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
+ }
+ $_[1] = '' if $chk;
+ return $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 $@ ? 0 : 1;
+ };
+ *decode = sub{
+ my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
+ utf8::upgrade($str);
+ $_[1] = '' if $chk;
+ return $str;
+ };
+ *encode = \&decode;
+ $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
+ bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal";
+ }
+
+ {
+ # 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) {
+ $_[1] = '' if $chk;
+ return $str;
+ }
+ return undef;
+ };
+ *encode = sub {
+ my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
+ my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
+ $_[1] = '' if $chk;
+ return $octets;
+ };
+ $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
+ bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
+ }
+}
1;
use Encode;
+=head2 Table of Contents
+
+Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big
+to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs
+and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details,
+see the PODs below:
+
+ Name Description
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings
+ Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
+ Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings
+ Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings
+ Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
+ Encode::KR Korean Encodings
+ Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
-and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of B<characters>.
+and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
+B<characters>.
-To find more about character encodings, please consult
-L<Encode::Details> . This document focuses on programming references.
+The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
+defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
+values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode
+codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
+the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
+of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
-=head1 PERL ENCODING API
+Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
+often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in
+networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
+types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
+languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
+numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
-=head2 Generic Encoding Interface
+When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to
+process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
+byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
+"logical character".
-=over 4
+=head2 TERMINOLOGY
-=item *
+=over 2
- $bytes = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK])
+=item *
-Encodes string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
-a sequence of octets. For CHECK see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
+I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more).
+(What Perl's strings are made of.)
-For example to convert (internally UTF-8 encoded) Unicode data
-to octets:
+=item *
- $octets = encode("utf8", $unicode);
+I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255
+(A special case of a Perl character.)
=item *
- $string = decode(ENCODING, $bytes[, CHECK])
+I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
+(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
-Decode sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
-internal form and returns the resulting string. For CHECK see
-L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
+=back
-For example to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+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.
- $utf8 = decode("latin1", $latin1);
+=head1 PERL ENCODING API
-=item *
+=over 2
- from_to($string, FROM_ENCODING, TO_ENCODING[, CHECK])
+=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK])
-Convert B<in-place> the data between two encodings. How did the data
-in $string originally get to be in FROM_ENCODING? Either using
-encode() or through PerlIO: See L</"Encoding and IO">. For CHECK
-see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
+Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
+a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
+an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
+For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
-For example to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+For example, to convert (internally UTF-8 encoded) Unicode string to
+iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
- from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf-8");
+ $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $utf8);
+
+B<CAVEAT>: When you C<$octets = encode("utf8", $utf8)>, then $octets
+B<ne> $utf8. 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])
+
+Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
+internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
+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 ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+
+ $utf8 = decode("iso-8859-1", $latin1);
+
+B<CAVEAT>: When you C<$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 $octets entirely conststs of
+ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
+below.
+
+=item [$length =] from_to($string, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
+
+Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. For example, to
+convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+
+ from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8");
and to convert it back:
- from_to($data, "utf-8", "iso-8859-1");
+ from_to($data, "utf8", "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.
+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.
+
+B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but not quite so;
+
+ 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
+but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
+
+ $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
+
+See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
+
+=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
+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
+$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
+L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
=back
-=head2 Handling Malformed Data
+=head2 Listing available encodings
-If CHECK is not set, C<undef> is returned. If the data is supposed to
-be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning (category utf8) is given. If
-CHECK is true but not a code reference, dies.
+ use Encode;
+ @list = Encode->encodings();
-It would desirable to have a way to indicate that transform should use
-the encodings "replacement character" - no such mechanism is defined yet.
+Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that
+are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the
+ones that are not loaded yet, say
-It is also planned to allow I<CHECK> to be a code reference.
+ @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
-This is not yet implemented as there are design issues with what its
-arguments should be and how it returns its results.
+Or you can give the name of a specific module.
-=over 4
+ @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
-=item Scheme 1
+When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed.
-Passed remaining fragment of string being processed.
-Modifies it in place to remove bytes/characters it can understand
-and returns a string used to represent them.
-e.g.
+ @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
- sub fixup {
- my $ch = substr($_[0],0,1,'');
- return sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch);
- }
+To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
+see L<Encode::Supported>.
-This scheme is close to how underlying C code for Encode works, but gives
-the fixup routine very little context.
+=head2 Defining Aliases
-=item Scheme 2
+To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
-Passed original string, and an index into it of the problem area, and
-output string so far. Appends what it will to output string and
-returns new index into original string. For example:
+ use Encode;
+ use Encode::Alias;
+ define_alias(newName => ENCODING);
- sub fixup {
- # my ($s,$i,$d) = @_;
- my $ch = substr($_[0],$_[1],1);
- $_[2] .= sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch);
- return $_[1]+1;
- }
+After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING.
+ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an
+I<encoding object>
-This scheme gives maximal control to the fixup routine but is more
-complicated to code, and may need internals of Encode to be tweaked to
-keep original string intact.
+But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with
+C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof.
+i.e.
-=item Other Schemes
+ Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true
+ Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
+ Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
-Hybrids of above.
+resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
+exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
-Multiple return values rather than in-place modifications.
+See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
-Index into the string could be pos($str) allowing s/\G...//.
+=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
-=back
+If your perl supports I<PerlIO>, you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
+and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
+are totally identical in their functionality.
-=head2 UTF-8 / utf8
+ # via PerlIO
+ open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
+ open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
+ while(<>){ print; }
-The Unicode consortium defines the UTF-8 standard as a way of encoding
-the entire Unicode repertiore as sequences of octets. This encoding is
-expected to become very widespread. Perl can use this form internaly
-to represent strings, so conversions to and from this form are
-particularly efficient (as octets in memory do not have to change,
-just the meta-data that tells Perl how to treat them).
+ # via from_to
+ open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
+ open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
+ while(<>){
+ from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
+ }
-=over 4
+Unfortunately, there may be encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
+if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
+method.
-=item *
+ Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
+ find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
- $bytes = encode_utf8($string);
+ use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
+ perlio_ok("euc-jp")
-The characters that comprise string are encoded in Perl's superset of UTF-8
-and the resulting octets returned as a sequence of bytes. All possible
-characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
+Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
+except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. See L<Encode::Encoding> for details.
-=item *
+For gory details, see L<Encode::PerlIO>.
- $string = decode_utf8($bytes [,CHECK]);
+=head1 Handling Malformed Data
-The sequence of octets represented by $bytes 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 L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
+=over 2
-=back
+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>.
-=head2 Listing available encodings
+=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
- use Encode qw(encodings);
- @list = encodings();
+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
+(category utf8) is given.
-Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings.
+=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
-To find which encodings are suppoted by this package in details,
-see L<Encode::Supported>.
+If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die 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.
-=head2 Defining Aliases
+=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
+ }
+
+=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
+
+This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when
+you are debugging the mode above.
+
+=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ)
+
+=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF)
- use Encode qw(define_alias);
- define_alias( newName => ENCODING);
+=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF)
-Allows newName to be used as am alias for ENCODING. ENCODING may be
-either the name of an encoding or and encoding object (as above).
+For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
+Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
-See L<Encode::Alias> on details.
+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
+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.
+
+=item The bitmask
+
+These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX
+constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via
+C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask
+constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
+
+ FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
+ DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
+ WARN_ON_ER 0x0002 X
+ RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
+ LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
+ PERLQQ 0x0100 X
+ HTMLCREF 0x0200
+ XMLCREF 0x0400
+
+=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
+
+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.
=head1 Defining Encodings
+To define a new encoding, use:
+
use Encode qw(define_alias);
- define_encoding( $object, 'canonicalName' [,alias...]);
+ define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
-Causes I<canonicalName> to be associated with I<$object>. The object
-should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>
-below. If more than two arguments are provided then additional
-arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object> as for C<define_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>.
-=head1 Encoding and IO
+See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
-It is very common to want to do encoding transformations when
-reading or writing files, network connections, pipes etc.
-If Perl is configured to use the new 'perlio' IO system then
-C<Encode> provides a "layer" (See L<perliol>) which can transform
-data as it is read or written.
+=head1 The UTF-8 flag
-Here is how the blind poet would modernise the encoding:
+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.>
- use Encode;
- open(my $iliad,'<:encoding(iso-8859-7)','iliad.greek');
- open(my $utf8,'>:utf8','iliad.utf8');
- my @epic = <$iliad>;
- print $utf8 @epic;
- close($utf8);
- close($illiad);
+=over 2
+
+=item Goal #1:
+
+Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old
+byte-oriented data they used to work on.
-In addition the new IO system can also be configured to read/write
-UTF-8 encoded characters (as noted above this is efficient):
+=item Goal #2:
- open(my $fh,'>:utf8','anything');
- print $fh "Any \x{0021} string \N{SMILEY FACE}\n";
+Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new
+character-oriented data when appropriate.
-Either of the above forms of "layer" specifications can be made the default
-for a lexical scope with the C<use open ...> pragma. See L<open>.
+=item Goal #3:
-Once a handle is open is layers can be altered using C<binmode>.
+Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode
+as in the old byte-oriented mode.
-Without any such configuration, or if Perl itself is built using
-system's own IO, then write operations assume that file handle accepts
-only I<bytes> and will C<die> if a character larger than 255 is
-written to the handle. When reading, each octet from the handle
-becomes a byte-in-a-character. Note that this default is the same
-behaviour as bytes-only languages (including Perl before v5.6) would
-have, and is sufficient to handle native 8-bit encodings
-e.g. iso-8859-1, EBCDIC etc. and any legacy mechanisms for handling
-other encodings and binary data.
+=item Goal #4:
-In other cases it is the programs responsibility to transform
-characters into bytes using the API above before doing writes, and to
-transform the bytes read from a handle into characters before doing
-"character operations" (e.g. C<lc>, C</\W+/>, ...).
+Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a
+byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.
-You can also use PerlIO to convert larger amounts of data you don't
-want to bring into memory. For example to convert between ISO-8859-1
-(Latin 1) and UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC machines):
+=back
+
+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
+flag on).
- open(F, "<:encoding(iso-8859-1)", "data.txt") or die $!;
- open(G, ">:utf8", "data.utf") or die $!;
- while (<F>) { print G }
+Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
- # Could also do "print G <F>" but that would pull
- # the whole file into memory just to write it out again.
+=over2
-More examples:
+=item *
- open(my $f, "<:encoding(cp1252)")
- open(my $g, ">:encoding(iso-8859-2)")
- open(my $h, ">:encoding(latin9)") # iso-8859-15
+When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
-See L<PerlIO> for more information.
+=item
-See also L<encoding> for how to change the default encoding of the
-data in your script.
+When you decode, the resuting utf8 flag is on unless you can
+unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
+dis-ambiguity.
-=head1 Messing with Perl's Internals
+ After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
+
+ When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF
+ In ISO-8859-1 ON
+ In any other Encoding ON
+ ---------------------------------------------
+
+As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
+Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
+careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
+
+This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same
+reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a
+string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek
+and poke these if you will. See the section below.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals
The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current
-implementation. As such they are efficient, but may change.
+implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change.
-=over 4
+=over 2
-=item * is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
+=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
-[INTERNAL] Test whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
+[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed
UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
-=item *
-
- _utf8_on(STRING)
+=item _utf8_on(STRING)
-[INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
+[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you
B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous
-state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the return value as
-I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
-
-=item *
+state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as
+indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
- _utf8_off(STRING)
+=item _utf8_off(STRING)
-[INTERNAL] Turn off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
-Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the
-return value as I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
+[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
+Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the
+return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
not a string.
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<Encode::Details>,
L<Encode::Encoding>,
L<Encode::Supported>,
-L<PerlIO>,
+L<Encode::PerlIO>,
L<encoding>,
-L<perlebcdic>,
-L<perlfunc/open>,
-L<perlunicode>,
-L<utf8>,
+L<perlebcdic>,
+L<perlfunc/open>,
+L<perlunicode>,
+L<utf8>,
the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt>
+=head1 MAINTAINER
+
+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.
+
=cut