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- package Encode::TW;
- BEGIN {
- if (ord("A") == 193) {
- die "Encode::TW not supported on EBCDIC\n";
- }
- }
- our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.26 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
-
- use Encode;
- use XSLoader;
- XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__,$VERSION);
-
- 1;
- __END__
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use Encode qw/encode decode/;
- $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
- $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used
- in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- Encodings supported are as follows.
-
- Canonical Alias Description
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/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
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- To find out how to use this module in detail, see L<Encode>.
-
- =head1 NOTES
-
- Due to size concerns, C<EUC-TW> (Extended Unix Character), C<CCCII>
- (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), C<BIG5PLUS>
- (CMEX's Big5+) and C<BIG5EXT> (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately
- on CPAN, under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>. That module also contains
- extra China-based encodings.
-
- =head1 BUGS
-
- Since the original C<big5> encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere
- (glibc and DOS-based systems uses C<big5> to mean C<big5-eten>; Microsoft
- uses C<big5> to mean C<cp950>), a conscious decision was made to alias
- C<big5> to C<big5-eten>, which is the de facto superset of the original
- big5.
-
- The C<CNS11643> encoding files are not complete. For common C<CNS11643>
- manipulation, please use C<EUC-TW> in L<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
-
- L<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
-
- to find out why it is implemented that way.
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- L<Encode>
-
- =cut
-