=item * $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);
-Converts (in-place) internal representation of string to Perl's internal
-I<UTF-X> form. Returns the number of octets necessary to represent
-the string as I<UTF-X>. Can be used to make sure that the
+Converts (in-place) internal representation of string to Perl's
+internal I<UTF-X> form. Returns the number of octets necessary to
+represent the string as I<UTF-X>. Can be used to make sure that the
UTF-8 flag is on, so that C<\w> or C<lc()> work as expected on strings
-containing characters in the range 0x80-0xFF. Note that this should
-not be used to convert
-a legacy byte encoding to Unicode: use Encode for that. Affected
-by the encoding pragma.
+containing characters in the range 0x80-0xFF (oon ASCII and
+derivatives). Note that this should not be used to convert a legacy
+byte encoding to Unicode: use Encode for that. Affected by the
+encoding pragma.
=item * utf8::downgrade($string[, FAIL_OK])
=item * utf8::encode($string)
Converts (in-place) I<$string> from logical characters to octet
-sequence representing it in Perl's I<UTF-X> encoding. Same as
-Encode::encode_utf8(). Note that this should not be used to convert
-a legacy byte encoding to Unicode: use Encode for that.
+sequence representing it in Perl's I<UTF-X> encoding. Returns
+nothing. Same as Encode::encode_utf8(). Note that this should not be
+used to convert a legacy byte encoding to Unicode: use Encode for
+that.
=item * $flag = utf8::decode($string)
Attempts to convert I<$string> in-place from Perl's I<UTF-X> encoding
-into logical characters. Same as Encode::decode_utf8(). Note that this
-should not be used to convert Unicode back to a legacy byte encoding:
-use Encode for that.
+into logical characters. Returns nothing. Same as Encode::decode_utf8().
+Note that this should not be used to convert Unicode back to a legacy
+byte encoding: use Encode for that.
=item * $flag = utf8::is_utf8(STRING)
-Test whether STRING is in UTF-8.
+Test whether STRING is in UTF-8. Same as Encode::is_utf8().
=item * $flag = utf8::valid(STRING)
and C<sv_utf8_decode>, which are wrapped by the Perl functions
C<utf8::upgrade>, C<utf8::downgrade>, C<utf8::encode> and
C<utf8::decode>. Note that in the Perl 5.8.0 implementation the
-functions utf8::valid, utf8::encode, utf8::decode, utf8::upgrade,
-and utf8::downgrade are always available, without a C<require utf8>
-statement-- this may change in future releases.
+functions utf8::is_utf8, utf8::valid, utf8::encode, utf8::decode,
+utf8::upgrade, and utf8::downgrade are always available, without a
+C<require utf8> statement-- this may change in future releases.
=head1 BUGS
#
#
-plan tests => 99;
+plan tests => 143;
{
# bug id 20001009.001
eval qq{is(q \xc3\xbc test \xc3\xbc, qq\xc2\xb7 test \xc2\xb7,
"utf8 quote delimiters [perl #16823]");};
}
+
+# Test the "internals".
+
+{
+ my $a = "A";
+ my $b = chr(0x0FF);
+ my $c = chr(0x100);
+
+ ok( utf8::valid($a), "utf8::valid basic");
+ ok( utf8::valid($b), "utf8::valid beyond");
+ ok( utf8::valid($c), "utf8::valid unicode");
+
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($a), "!utf8::is_utf8 basic");
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($b), "!utf8::is_utf8 beyond");
+ ok( utf8::is_utf8($c), "utf8::is_utf8 unicode");
+
+ is(utf8::upgrade($a), 1, "utf8::upgrade basic");
+ is(utf8::upgrade($b), 2, "utf8::upgrade beyond");
+ is(utf8::upgrade($c), 2, "utf8::upgrade unicode");
+
+ is($a, "A", "basic");
+ is($b, "\xFF", "beyond");
+ is($c, "\x{100}", "unicode");
+
+ ok( utf8::valid($a), "utf8::valid basic");
+ ok( utf8::valid($b), "utf8::valid beyond");
+ ok( utf8::valid($c), "utf8::valid unicode");
+
+ ok( utf8::is_utf8($a), "utf8::is_utf8 basic");
+ ok( utf8::is_utf8($b), "utf8::is_utf8 beyond");
+ ok( utf8::is_utf8($c), "utf8::is_utf8 unicode");
+
+ is(utf8::downgrade($a), 1, "utf8::downgrade basic");
+ is(utf8::downgrade($b), 1, "utf8::downgrade beyond");
+
+ is($a, "A", "basic");
+ is($b, "\xFF", "beyond");
+
+ ok( utf8::valid($a), "utf8::valid basic");
+ ok( utf8::valid($b), "utf8::valid beyond");
+
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($a), "!utf8::is_utf8 basic");
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($b), "!utf8::is_utf8 beyond");
+
+ utf8::encode($a);
+ utf8::encode($b);
+ utf8::encode($c);
+
+ is($a, "A", "basic");
+ is(length($b), 2, "beyond length");
+ is(length($c), 2, "unicode length");
+
+ ok(utf8::valid($a), "utf8::valid basic");
+ ok(utf8::valid($b), "utf8::valid beyond");
+ ok(utf8::valid($c), "utf8::valid unicode");
+
+ # encode() clears the UTF-8 flag (unlike upgrade()).
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($a), "!utf8::is_utf8 basic");
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($b), "!utf8::is_utf8 beyond");
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($c), "!utf8::is_utf8 unicode");
+
+ utf8::decode($a);
+ utf8::decode($b);
+ utf8::decode($c);
+
+ is($a, "A", "basic");
+ is($b, "\xFF", "beyond");
+ is($c, "\x{100}", "unicode");
+
+ ok(utf8::valid($a), "!utf8::valid basic");
+ ok(utf8::valid($b), "!utf8::valid beyond");
+ ok(utf8::valid($c), " utf8::valid unicode");
+
+ ok(!utf8::is_utf8($a), "!utf8::is_utf8 basic");
+ ok( utf8::is_utf8($b), " utf8::is_utf8 beyond"); # $b stays in UTF-8.
+ ok( utf8::is_utf8($c), " utf8::is_utf8 unicode");
+}