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10c5ecbb 1#
78589665 2# $Id: Encode.pm,v 2.9 2004/12/03 19:16:40 dankogai Exp $
10c5ecbb 3#
2c674647 4package Encode;
51ef4e11 5use strict;
78589665 6our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 2.9 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
8f139f4c 7sub DEBUG () { 0 }
6d1c0808 8use XSLoader ();
10c5ecbb 9XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__, $VERSION);
2c674647 10
2c674647 11require Exporter;
7e19fb92 12use base qw/Exporter/;
2c674647 13
4411f3b6 14# Public, encouraged API is exported by default
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15
16our @EXPORT = qw(
17 decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8
a0d8a30e 18 encodings find_encoding clone_encoding
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19);
20
b7a5c9de 21our @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC
af1f55d9 22 PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF);
b7a5c9de 23our @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN
af1f55d9 24 FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF);
85982a32 25
51ef4e11 26our @EXPORT_OK =
6d1c0808 27 (
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28 qw(
29 _utf8_off _utf8_on define_encoding from_to is_16bit is_8bit
30 is_utf8 perlio_ok resolve_alias utf8_downgrade utf8_upgrade
31 ),
32 @FB_FLAGS, @FB_CONSTS,
33 );
34
6d1c0808 35our %EXPORT_TAGS =
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36 (
37 all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ],
38 fallbacks => [ @FB_CONSTS ],
39 fallback_all => [ @FB_CONSTS, @FB_FLAGS ],
40 );
41
4411f3b6 42# Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S
2c674647 43
a63c962f 44our $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193);
f2a2953c 45
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46use Encode::Alias;
47
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48# Make a %Encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating
49our %Encoding;
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50our %ExtModule;
51require Encode::Config;
52eval { require Encode::ConfigLocal };
5129552c 53
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54sub encodings
55{
5129552c 56 my $class = shift;
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57 my %enc;
58 if (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all"){
59 %enc = ( %Encoding, %ExtModule );
60 }else{
61 %enc = %Encoding;
62 for my $mod (map {m/::/o ? $_ : "Encode::$_" } @_){
8f139f4c 63 DEBUG and warn $mod;
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64 for my $enc (keys %ExtModule){
65 $ExtModule{$enc} eq $mod and $enc{$enc} = $mod;
66 }
67 }
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68 }
69 return
ce912cd4 70 sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
fc17bd48 71 grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode|Guess)$/o} keys %enc;
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72}
73
85982a32 74sub perlio_ok{
0ab8f81e 75 my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]);
011b2d2f 76 $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok();
0ab8f81e 77 return 0; # safety net
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78}
79
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80sub define_encoding
81{
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82 my $obj = shift;
83 my $name = shift;
5129552c 84 $Encoding{$name} = $obj;
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85 my $lc = lc($name);
86 define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name;
10c5ecbb 87 while (@_){
18586f54 88 my $alias = shift;
10c5ecbb 89 define_alias($alias, $obj);
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90 }
91 return $obj;
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92}
93
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94sub getEncoding
95{
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96 my ($class, $name, $skip_external) = @_;
97
a0d8a30e 98 ref($name) && $name->can('renew') and return $name;
10c5ecbb 99 exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
18586f54 100 my $lc = lc $name;
10c5ecbb 101 exists $Encoding{$lc} and return $Encoding{$lc};
c50d192e 102
5129552c 103 my $oc = $class->find_alias($name);
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104 defined($oc) and return $oc;
105 $lc ne $name and $oc = $class->find_alias($lc);
106 defined($oc) and return $oc;
c50d192e 107
c731e18e 108 unless ($skip_external)
d1ed7747 109 {
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110 if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){
111 $mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm';
112 eval{ require $mod; };
10c5ecbb 113 exists $Encoding{$name} and return $Encoding{$name};
c731e18e 114 }
d1ed7747 115 }
18586f54 116 return;
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117}
118
a0d8a30e 119sub find_encoding($;$)
4411f3b6 120{
10c5ecbb 121 my ($name, $skip_external) = @_;
dd9703c9 122 return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external);
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123}
124
a0d8a30e 125sub resolve_alias($){
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126 my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
127 defined $obj and return $obj->name;
128 return;
129}
130
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131sub clone_encoding($){
132 my $obj = find_encoding(shift);
133 ref $obj or return;
134 eval { require Storable };
135 $@ and return;
136 return Storable::dclone($obj);
137}
138
b2704119 139sub encode($$;$)
4411f3b6 140{
e8c86ba6 141 my ($name, $string, $check) = @_;
0f7c507f 142 return undef unless defined $string;
78589665 143 $string .= '' if ref $string; # stringify;
b2704119 144 $check ||=0;
18586f54 145 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
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146 unless(defined $enc){
147 require Carp;
148 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
149 }
18586f54 150 my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check);
23f3589e 151 $_[1] = $string if $check;
18586f54 152 return $octets;
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153}
154
b2704119 155sub decode($$;$)
4411f3b6 156{
18586f54 157 my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_;
0f7c507f 158 return undef unless defined $octets;
78589665 159 $octets .= '' if ref $octets;
b2704119 160 $check ||=0;
18586f54 161 my $enc = find_encoding($name);
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162 unless(defined $enc){
163 require Carp;
164 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$name'");
165 }
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166 my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check);
167 $_[1] = $octets if $check;
168 return $string;
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169}
170
b2704119 171sub from_to($$$;$)
4411f3b6 172{
18586f54 173 my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_;
0f7c507f 174 return undef unless defined $string;
b2704119 175 $check ||=0;
18586f54 176 my $f = find_encoding($from);
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177 unless (defined $f){
178 require Carp;
179 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$from'");
180 }
18586f54 181 my $t = find_encoding($to);
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182 unless (defined $t){
183 require Carp;
184 Carp::croak("Unknown encoding '$to'");
185 }
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186 my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check);
187 return undef if ($check && length($string));
a999c27c 188 $string = $t->encode($uni,$check);
18586f54 189 return undef if ($check && length($uni));
3ef515df 190 return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ;
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191}
192
b2704119 193sub encode_utf8($)
4411f3b6 194{
18586f54 195 my ($str) = @_;
c731e18e 196 utf8::encode($str);
18586f54 197 return $str;
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198}
199
c2cbba7d 200sub decode_utf8($;$)
4411f3b6 201{
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202 my ($str, $check) = @_;
203 if ($check){
204 return decode("utf8", $str, $check);
205 }else{
206 return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
207 return $str;
208 }
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209}
210
b536bf57 211predefine_encodings(1);
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212
213#
214# This is to restore %Encoding if really needed;
215#
10c5ecbb 216
f2a2953c 217sub predefine_encodings{
10c5ecbb 218 use Encode::Encoding;
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219 no warnings 'redefine';
220 my $use_xs = shift;
6d1c0808 221 if ($ON_EBCDIC) {
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222 # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC
223 package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC;
10c5ecbb 224 push @Encode::UTF_EBCDIC::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
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225 *decode = sub{
226 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
227 my $res = '';
228 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 229 $res .=
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230 chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
231 }
232 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
233 return $res;
234 };
235 *encode = sub{
236 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
237 my $res = '';
238 for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) {
6d1c0808 239 $res .=
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240 chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1))));
241 }
242 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
243 return $res;
244 };
6d1c0808 245 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 246 bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC";
6d1c0808 247 } else {
f2a2953c 248 package Encode::Internal;
10c5ecbb 249 push @Encode::Internal::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
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250 *decode = sub{
251 my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_;
252 utf8::upgrade($str);
253 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
254 return $str;
255 };
256 *encode = \&decode;
6d1c0808 257 $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} =
c731e18e 258 bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal";
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259 }
260
261 {
262 # was in Encode::utf8
263 package Encode::utf8;
10c5ecbb 264 push @Encode::utf8::ISA, 'Encode::Encoding';
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265 #
266 if ($use_xs){
8f139f4c 267 Encode::DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS on";
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268 *decode = \&decode_xs;
269 *encode = \&encode_xs;
270 }else{
8f139f4c 271 Encode::DEBUG and warn __PACKAGE__, " XS off";
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272 *decode = sub{
273 my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_;
274 my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
275 if (defined $str) {
276 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
277 return $str;
278 }
279 return undef;
280 };
281 *encode = sub {
282 my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_;
283 my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string);
284 $_[1] = '' if $chk;
285 return $octets;
286 };
287 }
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288 *cat_decode = sub{ # ($obj, $dst, $src, $pos, $trm, $chk)
289 my ($obj, undef, undef, $pos, $trm) = @_; # currently ignores $chk
290 my ($rdst, $rsrc, $rpos) = \@_[1,2,3];
291 use bytes;
292 if ((my $npos = index($$rsrc, $trm, $pos)) >= 0) {
293 $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos, $npos - $pos + length($trm));
294 $$rpos = $npos + length($trm);
295 return 1;
296 }
297 $$rdst .= substr($$rsrc, $pos);
298 $$rpos = length($$rsrc);
299 return '';
300 };
b7a5c9de 301 $Encode::Encoding{utf8} =
c731e18e 302 bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8";
f2a2953c 303 }
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304}
305
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3061;
307
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308__END__
309
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310=head1 NAME
311
312Encode - character encodings
313
314=head1 SYNOPSIS
315
316 use Encode;
317
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318=head2 Table of Contents
319
0ab8f81e 320Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big
67d7b5ef 321to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs
6d1c0808 322and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details,
0ab8f81e 323see the PODs below:
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324
325 Name Description
326 --------------------------------------------------------
6d1c0808 327 Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings
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328 Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
329 Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings
330 Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings
331 Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
332 Encode::KR Korean Encodings
333 Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings
334 --------------------------------------------------------
335
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336=head1 DESCRIPTION
337
47bfe92f 338The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
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339and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of
340B<characters>.
341
342The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that
343defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal
344values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode
345codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where
346the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set
347of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>).
348
0ab8f81e 349Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks
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350often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in
351networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many
352types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer
0ab8f81e 353languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of
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354numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything.
355
0ab8f81e 356When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to
67d7b5ef 357process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a
0ab8f81e 358byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger
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359"logical character".
360
361=head2 TERMINOLOGY
4411f3b6 362
7e19fb92 363=over 2
21938dfa 364
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365=item *
366
367I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more).
368(What Perl's strings are made of.)
369
370=item *
371
372I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255
373(A special case of a Perl character.)
374
375=item *
376
377I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255
0ab8f81e 378(Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.)
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379
380=back
4411f3b6 381
67d7b5ef 382=head1 PERL ENCODING API
4411f3b6 383
7e19fb92 384=over 2
4411f3b6 385
b7a5c9de 386=item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 387
0ab8f81e 388Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns
67d7b5ef 389a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or
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390an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">.
391For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
4411f3b6 392
b7a5c9de 393For example, to convert a string from Perl's internal format to
6d1c0808 394iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1),
681a7c68 395
b7a5c9de 396 $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $string);
7e19fb92 397
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398B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string)>, then $octets
399B<may not be equal to> $string. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag
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400for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of
401the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
402string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
681a7c68 403
78589665 404If the $string is C<undef> or a reference then C<undef> is returned.
4089adc4 405
b7a5c9de 406=item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 407
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408Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's
409internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(),
410ENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names
411and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see
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412L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
413
b7a5c9de 414For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to a string in Perl's internal format:
681a7c68 415
b7a5c9de 416 $string = decode("iso-8859-1", $octets);
681a7c68 417
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418B<CAVEAT>: When you run C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets)>, then $string
419B<may not be equal to> $octets. Though they both contain the same data,
420the utf8 flag for $string is on unless $octets entirely consists of
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421ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag">
422below.
47bfe92f 423
78589665 424If the $string is C<undef> or a reference then C<undef> is returned.
4089adc4 425
b7a5c9de 426=item [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK])
7e19fb92 427
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428Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. The data in $octets
429must be encoded as octets and not as characters in Perl's internal
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430format. For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to Microsoft's CP1250
431encoding:
2b106fbe 432
b7a5c9de 433 from_to($octets, "iso-8859-1", "cp1250");
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434
435and to convert it back:
436
b7a5c9de 437 from_to($octets, "cp1250", "iso-8859-1");
4411f3b6 438
ab97ca19 439Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
0ab8f81e 440converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable.
ab97ca19 441
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442from_to() returns the length of the converted string in octets on
443success, I<undef> on error.
3ef515df 444
b7a5c9de 445B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but are not quite so;
7e19fb92 446
b7a5c9de 447 from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1
7e19fb92 448 $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2
4411f3b6 449
b7a5c9de 450Both #1 and #2 make $data consist of a completely valid UTF-8 string
7e19fb92 451but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to
f2a2953c 452
7e19fb92 453 $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data));
f2a2953c 454
7e19fb92 455See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below.
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456
457=item $octets = encode_utf8($string);
458
7e19fb92 459Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters
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460that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's internal format and the
461result is returned as a sequence of octets. All possible
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462characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail.
463
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464
465=item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]);
466
7e19fb92 467equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>.
b7a5c9de 468The sequence of octets represented by
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469$octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical
470characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so
471it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see
472L</"Handling Malformed Data">.
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473
474=back
475
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476=head2 Listing available encodings
477
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478 use Encode;
479 @list = Encode->encodings();
480
481Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that
482are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the
483ones that are not loaded yet, say
484
485 @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all");
486
0ab8f81e 487Or you can give the name of a specific module.
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489 @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP");
490
491When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed.
51ef4e11 492
c731e18e 493 @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC");
5d030b67 494
0ab8f81e 495To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package,
5d030b67 496see L<Encode::Supported>.
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497
498=head2 Defining Aliases
499
0ab8f81e 500To add a new alias to a given encoding, use:
67d7b5ef 501
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502 use Encode;
503 use Encode::Alias;
a63c962f 504 define_alias(newName => ENCODING);
51ef4e11 505
3ef515df 506After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING.
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507ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an
508I<encoding object>
51ef4e11 509
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510But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with
511C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof.
512i.e.
513
514 Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true
515 Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent
516 Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical
517
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518resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be
519exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>.
fcb875d4 520
0ab8f81e 521See L<Encode::Alias> for details.
51ef4e11 522
85982a32 523=head1 Encoding via PerlIO
4411f3b6 524
b7a5c9de 525If your perl supports I<PerlIO> (which is the default), you can use a PerlIO layer to decode
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526and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples
527are totally identical in their functionality.
4411f3b6 528
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529 # via PerlIO
530 open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die;
531 open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 532 while(<$in>){ print $out $_; }
8e86646e 533
85982a32 534 # via from_to
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535 open my $in, "<", $infile or die;
536 open my $out, ">", $outfile or die;
b7a5c9de 537 while(<$in>){
0ab8f81e 538 from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1);
b7a5c9de 539 print $out $_;
85982a32 540 }
4411f3b6 541
b7a5c9de 542Unfortunately, it may be that encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check
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543if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok>
544method.
545
546 Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False
547 find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available
548
549 use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request
550 perlio_ok("euc-jp")
4411f3b6 551
0ab8f81e 552Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy
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553except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. For gory details, see
554L<Encode::Encoding> and L<Encode::PerlIO>.
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85982a32 556=head1 Handling Malformed Data
4411f3b6 557
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558The optional I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it,
559Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0 ) is assumed.
560
561=over 2
562
563=item B<NOTE:> Not all encoding suppport this feature
564
565Some encodings ignore I<CHECK> argument. For example,
566L<Encode::Unicode> ignores I<CHECK> and it always croaks on error.
567
568=back
569
570Now here is the list of I<CHECK> values available
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572=over 2
573
85982a32 574=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0)
47bfe92f 575
f9d05ba3 576If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character> in
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577place of a malformed character. When you encode, E<lt>subcharE<gt>
578will be used. When you decode the code point C<0xFFFD> is used. If
579the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning
580(category utf8) is given.
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7e19fb92 582=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1)
e9692b5b 583
b7a5c9de 584If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die on error immediately with an error
0ab8f81e 585message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the
f9d05ba3 586error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die.
47bfe92f 587
85982a32 588=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET
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85982a32 590If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately
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591return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when an
592error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with everything
593after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data). This is
594handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case where your
595source data may contain partial multi-byte character sequences,
596(i.e. you are reading with a fixed-width buffer). Here is a sample
597code that does exactly this:
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600 while(read $fh, $buffer, 256, length($buffer)){
601 $string .= decode($encoding, $buffer, Encode::FB_QUIET);
602 # $buffer now contains the unprocessed partial character
85982a32 603 }
1768d7eb 604
85982a32 605=item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN
67d7b5ef 606
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607This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when
608you are debugging the mode above.
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610=item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ)
611
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612=item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF)
613
614=item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF)
615
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616For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK ==
617Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode.
618
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619When you decode, C<\xI<HH>> will be inserted for a malformed character,
620where I<HH> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be
621decoded to utf8. And when you encode, C<\x{I<HHHH>}> will be inserted,
622where I<HHHH> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found
0ab8f81e 623in the character repertoire of the encoding.
85982a32 624
af1f55d9 625HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of
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627XML uses C<&#xI<HHHH>;> where I<HHHH> is the hexadecimal number.
af1f55d9 628
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630
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631These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX
632constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via
633C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask
634constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>.
85982a32 635
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636 FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ
637 DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X
4089adc4 638 WARN_ON_ERR 0x0002 X
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639 RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X
640 LEAVE_SRC 0x0008
641 PERLQQ 0x0100 X
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642 HTMLCREF 0x0200
643 XMLCREF 0x0400
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645=back
646
0ab8f81e 647=head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes
67d7b5ef 648
0ab8f81e 649In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback
f2a2953c 650function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided.
67d7b5ef 651
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652The fallback scheme does not work on EBCDIC platforms.
653
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655
656To define a new encoding, use:
657
b7a5c9de 658 use Encode qw(define_encoding);
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659 define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]);
660
661I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object
0ab8f81e 662should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>.
67d7b5ef 663If more than two arguments are provided then additional
b7a5c9de 664arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>.
67d7b5ef 665
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666See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details.
667
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668=head1 The UTF-8 flag
669
670Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator
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671just compared the strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with
672perl 5.8, C<eq> compares two strings with simultaneous consideration
673of I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I will quote page
674402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.>
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675
676=over 2
677
678=item Goal #1:
679
680Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old
681byte-oriented data they used to work on.
682
683=item Goal #2:
684
685Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new
686character-oriented data when appropriate.
687
688=item Goal #3:
689
690Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode
691as in the old byte-oriented mode.
692
693=item Goal #4:
694
695Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a
696byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.
697
698=back
699
700Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0
701was born and many features documented in the book remained
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702unimplemented for a long time. Perl 5.8 corrected this and the introduction
703of the UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think of this perl notion as of a
704byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and a character-oriented mode (utf8
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705flag on).
706
707Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag.
708
4bdf5738 709=over 2
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710
711=item *
712
713When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off.
714
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7e19fb92 716
b7a5c9de 717When you decode, the resulting utf8 flag is on unless you can
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718unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of
719dis-ambiguity.
720
b7a5c9de 721After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>,
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723 When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is
724 ---------------------------------------------
725 In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF
726 In ISO-8859-1 ON
727 In any other Encoding ON
728 ---------------------------------------------
729
730As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue
731Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be
732careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs.
733
734This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same
735reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a
736string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek
737and poke these if you will. See the section below.
738
739=back
740
741=head2 Messing with Perl's Internals
4411f3b6 742
47bfe92f 743The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current
0ab8f81e 744implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change.
4411f3b6 745
7e19fb92 746=over 2
4411f3b6 747
a63c962f 748=item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK])
4411f3b6 749
0ab8f81e 750[INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING.
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752UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
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2c246b25 754As of perl 5.8.1, L<utf8> also has utf8::is_utf8().
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a63c962f 756=item _utf8_on(STRING)
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0ab8f81e 758[INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is
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759B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you
760B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous
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761state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as
762indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string.
4411f3b6 763
a63c962f 764=item _utf8_off(STRING)
4411f3b6 765
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766[INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously.
767Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the
768return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is
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770
771=back
772
773=head1 SEE ALSO
774
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775L<Encode::Encoding>,
776L<Encode::Supported>,
6d1c0808 777L<Encode::PerlIO>,
5d030b67 778L<encoding>,
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779L<perlebcdic>,
780L<perlfunc/open>,
781L<perlunicode>,
782L<utf8>,
5d030b67 783the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt>
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85982a32 785=head1 MAINTAINER
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786
787This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained
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788by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full
789list of people involved. For any questions, use
b7a5c9de 790E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share.
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