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Encode::TW(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Encode::TW(3pm)

NAME

Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings

SYNOPSIS

use Encode qw/encode decode/;

$big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly

$utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto

DESCRIPTION

This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows. Canonical Alias Description

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big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions)

/\bbig5-?et(en)?$/i

/\btca-?big5$/i

big5-hkscs /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i

/\bhk(scs)?-?big5$/i

Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings cp950 Code Page 950 = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings

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To find out how to use this module in detail, see Encode. NNOOTTEESS

Due to size concerns, "EUC-TW" (Extended Unix Character), "CCCII" (Chi-

nese Character Code for Information Interchange), "BIG5PLUS" (CMEX's Big5+) and "BIG5EXT" (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately on CPAN,

under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra China-

based encodings.

BUGS

Since the original "big5" encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere

(glibc and DOS-based systems uses "big5" to mean "big5-eten"; Microsoft

uses "big5" to mean "cp950"), a conscious decision was made to alias

"big5" to "big5-eten", which is the de facto superset of the original

big5. The "CNS11643" encoding files are not complete. For common "CNS11643"

manipulation, please use "EUC-TW" in Encode::HanExtra, which contains

planes 1-7.

The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even

though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See

to find out why it is implemented that way.