package charnames;
+use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
+$charnames::hint_bits = 0x20000;
my $fname = 'unicode/UnicodeData-Latest.txt';
my $txt;
die "Unknown charname '$name'" unless @off;
my $ord = hex substr $txt, $off[0] - 4, 4;
- if ($^H & 0x8) { # "use bytes" in effect?
+ if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) { # "use bytes" in effect?
use bytes;
return chr $ord if $ord <= 255;
my $hex = sprintf '%X=0%o', $ord, $ord;
sub import {
shift;
- die "No scripts for `use charnames'" unless @_;
- $^H |= 0x20000;
+ die "`use charnames' needs explicit imports list" unless @_;
+ $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits;
$^H{charnames} = \&charnames ;
my %h;
@h{@_} = (1) x @_;
specified order).
For lookup of C<CHARNAME> inside a given script C<SCRIPTNAME>
-F<charcodes.pm> looks for the names
+this pragma looks for the names
SCRIPTNAME CAPITAL LETTER CHARNAME
SCRIPTNAME SMALL LETTER CHARNAME
SCRIPTNAME LETTER CHARNAME
in the table of standard Unicode names. If C<CHARNAME> is lowercase,
-then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise C<SMALL> variant is
+then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise the C<SMALL> variant is
ignored.
=head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
-The mechanism of translation is C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not
+The mechanism of translation of C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not
hardwired into F<charnames.pm>. A module can install custom
-translations (inside the scope which C<use>s the module) by the
+translations (inside the scope which C<use>s the module) with the
following magic incantation:
- sub import {
- shift;
- $^H |= 0x20000;
- $^H{charnames} = \&translator;
- }
+ use charnames (); # for $charnames::hint_bits
+ sub import {
+ shift;
+ $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits;
+ $^H{charnames} = \&translator;
+ }
Here translator() is a subroutine which takes C<CHARNAME> as an
argument, and returns text to insert into the string instead of the
C<\N{CHARNAME}> escape. Since the text to insert should be different
-in C<utf8> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
-state of C<utf8>-flag as in
-
- sub translator {
- if ($^H & 0x8) {
- return utf_translator(@_);
- } else {
- return no_utf_translator(@_);
+in C<bytes> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
+state of C<bytes>-flag as in:
+
+ use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
+ sub translator {
+ if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) {
+ return bytes_translator(@_);
+ }
+ else {
+ return utf8_translator(@_);
+ }
}
- }
=head1 BUGS
a future version of Perl.
=cut
-