package Encode;
use strict;
-our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.52 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
+our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.57 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
our $DEBUG = 0;
use XSLoader ();
XSLoader::load 'Encode';
}
sub perlio_ok{
- exists $INC{"PerlIO/encoding.pm"} or return 0;
- my $stash = ref($_[0]);
- $stash ||= ref(find_encoding($_[0]));
- return ($stash eq "Encode::XS" || $stash eq "Encode::Unicode");
+ my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]);
+ $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok();
+ return 0; # safety net
}
sub define_encoding
$_[1] = '' if $chk;
return $octets;
};
- $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
+ $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
}
}
-require Encode::Encoding;
-@Encode::XS::ISA = qw(Encode::Encoding);
-
-# This is very dodgy - PerlIO::encoding does "use Encode" and _BEFORE_ it gets a
-# chance to set its VERSION we potentially delete it from %INC so it will be re-loaded
-# NI-S
-eval {
- require PerlIO::encoding;
- unless (PerlIO::encoding->VERSION >= 0.02){
- delete $INC{"PerlIO/encoding.pm"};
- }
-};
-# warn $@ if $@;
-@Encode::XS::ISA = qw(Encode::Encoding);
-
1;
__END__
use Encode;
-
=head2 Table of Contents
-Encode consists of a collection of modules which details are too big
+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;
+see the PODs below:
Name Description
--------------------------------------------------------
the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
-Traditionally computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
+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 machines representation of
+languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
-When Perl is processing "binary data" the programmer wants Perl to
+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
+byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
"logical character".
=head2 TERMINOLOGY
=item *
I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
-(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. disk file.)
+(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
=back
=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK])
-Encodes string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
+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
-alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
-For CHECK see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
+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 (internally UTF-8 encoded) Unicode string to
iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
$octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $unicode);
=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets[, CHECK])
-Decode 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 alias. For encoding names
-and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK see
+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:
+For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
$utf8 = decode("iso-8859-1", $latin1);
=item [$length =] from_to($string, FROM_ENCODING, TO_ENCODING [,CHECK])
-Convert B<in-place> the data between two encodings.
-For example to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
+Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings.
+For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8:
from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf-8");
from_to($data, "utf-8", "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() return the length of the converted string on success, undef
+from_to() returns the length of the converted string on success, undef
otherwise.
=back
=head2 UTF-8 / utf8
-The Unicode consortium defines the UTF-8 standard as a way of encoding
-the entire Unicode repertoire as sequences of octets. This encoding is
-expected to become very widespread. Perl can use this form internally
-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).
+The Unicode Consortium defines the UTF-8 transformation format as a
+way of encoding the entire Unicode repertoire as sequences of octets.
+This encoding is expected to become very widespread. Perl can use this
+form internally 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).
=over 4
=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
-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.
+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]);
The sequence of octets represented by $octets is decoded from UTF-8
into a sequence of logical characters. Not all sequences of octets
form valid UTF-8 encodings, so it is possible for this call to fail.
-For CHECK see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
+For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
=back
@all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
-Or you can give the name of specific module.
+Or you can give the name of a specific module.
@with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
@ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
-To find which encodings are supported by this package in details,
+To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
see L<Encode::Supported>.
=head2 Defining Aliases
-To add new alias to a given encoding, Use;
+To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
use Encode;
use Encode::Alias;
Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
-This resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias> and is
-exported via C<use encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
+resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
+exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
-See L<Encode::Alias> on details.
+See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
-If your perl supports I<PerlIO>, you can use PerlIO layer to directly
-decode and encode via filehandle. The following two examples are
-totally identical by functionality.
+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.
# via PerlIO
open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
while(<>){ print; }
# via from_to
- open my $in, $infile or die;
- open my $out, $outfile or die;
+ open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
+ open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
while(<>){
- from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc", 1);
+ from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
}
-Unfortunately, not all encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check if
-your encoding is supported by PerlIO by C<perlio_ok> method.
+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.
+
+ Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
+ find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
+
+ use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
+ perlio_ok("euc-jp")
- Encode::perlio_ok("iso-20220jp"); # false
- find_encoding("iso-2022-jp")->perlio_ok; # false
- use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
- perlio_ok("euc-jp") # true if PerlIO is enabled
+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>;
+For gory details, see L<Encode::PerlIO>.
=head1 Handling Malformed Data
=over 4
-THE I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it, it is
-identical to I<CHECK> = 0.
+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 I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
-If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put I<substitution character> in
-place of the malformed character. for UCM-based encodings,
-E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, \xFFFD is used. If the
-data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning (category
-utf8) is given.
+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.
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::DIE_ON_ERROR (== 1)
-If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die immediately with an error
-message. so when I<CHECK> is set, you should trap the fatal error
-with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error.
+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.
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
-return processed part on error, with data passed via argument
-overwritten with unprocessed part. This is handy when have to
-repeatedly call because the source data is chopped in the middle for
-some reasons, such as fixed-width buffer. Here is a sample code that
-just does this.
+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 partial character so we append
+ # buffer may end in a partial character so we append
$data .= $buffer;
$utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, ENCODE::FB_QUIET);
- # $data now contains unprocessed partial character
+ # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character
}
=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
-This is the same as above, except it warns on error. Handy when you
-are debugging the mode above.
+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)
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 placed 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 placed where I<xxxx> is the
-Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found in the character
-repertoire of the encoding.
+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.
=item The bitmask
-These modes are actually set via bitmask. here is how FB_XX are laid
-out. for FB_XX you can import via C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)> for
-generic bitmask constants, you can import via
- C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
+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
LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
PERLQQ 0x0100 X
-=head2 Unemplemented fallback schemes
+=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
-In future you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
+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
define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
-should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>
+should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
If more than two arguments are provided then additional
-arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object> as for C<define_alias>.
+arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>, as for C<define_alias>.
See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
=head1 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
=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)
-[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.
+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.
=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 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 full list
+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 others can share.
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