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2c674647 JH |
1 | package Encode; |
2 | ||
3 | $VERSION = 0.01; | |
4 | ||
5 | require DynaLoader; | |
6 | require Exporter; | |
7 | ||
8 | @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader); | |
9 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
10 | # Public, encouraged API is exported by default |
11 | @EXPORT = qw ( | |
12 | encode | |
13 | decode | |
14 | encode_utf8 | |
15 | decode_utf8 | |
16 | find_encoding | |
17 | ); | |
18 | ||
2c674647 JH |
19 | @EXPORT_OK = |
20 | qw( | |
4411f3b6 | 21 | encodings |
2c674647 JH |
22 | from_to |
23 | is_utf8 | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
24 | is_8bit |
25 | is_16bit | |
a12c0f56 NIS |
26 | utf8_upgrade |
27 | utf8_downgrade | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
28 | _utf8_on |
29 | _utf8_off | |
2c674647 JH |
30 | ); |
31 | ||
32 | bootstrap Encode (); | |
33 | ||
4411f3b6 | 34 | # Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S |
2c674647 | 35 | |
bf230f3d NIS |
36 | use Carp; |
37 | ||
2f2b4ff2 | 38 | # The global hash is declared in XS code |
4411f3b6 NIS |
39 | $encoding{Unicode} = bless({},'Encode::Unicode'); |
40 | $encoding{utf8} = bless({},'Encode::utf8'); | |
9b37254d | 41 | $encoding{'iso10646-1'} = bless({},'Encode::iso10646_1'); |
5345d506 | 42 | |
656753f8 NIS |
43 | sub encodings |
44 | { | |
45 | my ($class) = @_; | |
5345d506 | 46 | foreach my $dir (@INC) |
656753f8 | 47 | { |
5345d506 | 48 | if (opendir(my $dh,"$dir/Encode")) |
656753f8 | 49 | { |
5345d506 NIS |
50 | while (defined(my $name = readdir($dh))) |
51 | { | |
52 | if ($name =~ /^(.*)\.enc$/) | |
53 | { | |
54 | next if exists $encoding{$1}; | |
55 | $encoding{$1} = "$dir/$name"; | |
56 | } | |
57 | } | |
58 | closedir($dh); | |
656753f8 | 59 | } |
5345d506 NIS |
60 | } |
61 | return keys %encoding; | |
62 | } | |
63 | ||
64 | sub loadEncoding | |
65 | { | |
66 | my ($class,$name,$file) = @_; | |
67 | if (open(my $fh,$file)) | |
68 | { | |
69 | my $type; | |
70 | while (1) | |
71 | { | |
72 | my $line = <$fh>; | |
73 | $type = substr($line,0,1); | |
74 | last unless $type eq '#'; | |
75 | } | |
76 | $class .= ('::'.(($type eq 'E') ? 'Escape' : 'Table')); | |
c8991b40 | 77 | #warn "Loading $file"; |
5345d506 | 78 | return $class->read($fh,$name,$type); |
656753f8 NIS |
79 | } |
80 | else | |
81 | { | |
5345d506 | 82 | return undef; |
656753f8 | 83 | } |
656753f8 NIS |
84 | } |
85 | ||
656753f8 NIS |
86 | sub getEncoding |
87 | { | |
88 | my ($class,$name) = @_; | |
5345d506 NIS |
89 | my $enc; |
90 | unless (ref($enc = $encoding{$name})) | |
656753f8 | 91 | { |
5345d506 NIS |
92 | $enc = $class->loadEncoding($name,$enc) if defined $enc; |
93 | unless (ref($enc)) | |
656753f8 | 94 | { |
5345d506 | 95 | foreach my $dir (@INC) |
656753f8 | 96 | { |
5345d506 | 97 | last if ($enc = $class->loadEncoding($name,"$dir/Encode/$name.enc")); |
656753f8 | 98 | } |
87714904 | 99 | } |
5345d506 | 100 | $encoding{$name} = $enc; |
656753f8 | 101 | } |
5345d506 | 102 | return $enc; |
656753f8 NIS |
103 | } |
104 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
105 | sub find_encoding |
106 | { | |
107 | my ($name) = @_; | |
108 | return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name); | |
109 | } | |
110 | ||
111 | sub encode | |
112 | { | |
113 | my ($name,$string,$check) = @_; | |
114 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); | |
115 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; | |
50d26985 | 116 | my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check); |
4411f3b6 NIS |
117 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); |
118 | return $octets; | |
119 | } | |
120 | ||
121 | sub decode | |
122 | { | |
123 | my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_; | |
124 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); | |
125 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; | |
50d26985 | 126 | my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check); |
4411f3b6 NIS |
127 | return undef if ($check && length($octets)); |
128 | return $string; | |
129 | } | |
130 | ||
131 | sub from_to | |
132 | { | |
133 | my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_; | |
134 | my $f = find_encoding($from); | |
135 | croak("Unknown encoding '$from'") unless defined $f; | |
136 | my $t = find_encoding($to); | |
137 | croak("Unknown encoding '$to'") unless defined $t; | |
50d26985 | 138 | my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check); |
4411f3b6 | 139 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); |
50d26985 | 140 | $string = $t->encode($uni,$check); |
4411f3b6 NIS |
141 | return undef if ($check && length($uni)); |
142 | return length($_[0] = $string); | |
143 | } | |
144 | ||
145 | sub encode_utf8 | |
146 | { | |
147 | my ($str) = @_; | |
148 | utf8_encode($str); | |
149 | return $str; | |
150 | } | |
151 | ||
152 | sub decode_utf8 | |
153 | { | |
154 | my ($str) = @_; | |
155 | return undef unless utf8_decode($str); | |
156 | return $str; | |
157 | } | |
158 | ||
50d26985 NIS |
159 | package Encode::Encoding; |
160 | # Base class for classes which implement encodings | |
161 | # Temporary legacy methods | |
162 | sub toUnicode { shift->decode(@_) } | |
163 | sub fromUnicode { shift->encode(@_) } | |
164 | ||
165 | package Encode::XS; | |
166 | use base 'Encode::Encoding'; | |
167 | ||
656753f8 | 168 | package Encode::Unicode; |
50d26985 | 169 | use base 'Encode::Encoding'; |
656753f8 | 170 | |
9b37254d | 171 | # Dummy package that provides the encode interface but leaves data |
a12c0f56 | 172 | # as UTF-8 encoded. It is here so that from_to() works. |
656753f8 NIS |
173 | |
174 | sub name { 'Unicode' } | |
175 | ||
50d26985 | 176 | sub decode |
a12c0f56 NIS |
177 | { |
178 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; | |
179 | Encode::utf8_upgrade($str); | |
180 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
181 | return $str; | |
182 | } | |
656753f8 | 183 | |
50d26985 | 184 | *encode = \&decode; |
656753f8 | 185 | |
4411f3b6 | 186 | package Encode::utf8; |
50d26985 | 187 | use base 'Encode::Encoding'; |
4411f3b6 NIS |
188 | |
189 | # package to allow long-hand | |
190 | # $octets = encode( utf8 => $string ); | |
191 | # | |
192 | ||
193 | sub name { 'utf8' } | |
194 | ||
50d26985 | 195 | sub decode |
4411f3b6 NIS |
196 | { |
197 | my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_; | |
2a936312 | 198 | my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets); |
4411f3b6 NIS |
199 | if (defined $str) |
200 | { | |
201 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
202 | return $str; | |
203 | } | |
204 | return undef; | |
205 | } | |
206 | ||
50d26985 | 207 | sub encode |
4411f3b6 NIS |
208 | { |
209 | my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_; | |
2a936312 | 210 | my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string); |
4411f3b6 NIS |
211 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; |
212 | return $octets; | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
213 | } |
214 | ||
656753f8 | 215 | package Encode::Table; |
50d26985 | 216 | use base 'Encode::Encoding'; |
656753f8 NIS |
217 | |
218 | sub read | |
219 | { | |
220 | my ($class,$fh,$name,$type) = @_; | |
221 | my $rep = $class->can("rep_$type"); | |
222 | my ($def,$sym,$pages) = split(/\s+/,scalar(<$fh>)); | |
223 | my @touni; | |
224 | my %fmuni; | |
225 | my $count = 0; | |
226 | $def = hex($def); | |
656753f8 NIS |
227 | while ($pages--) |
228 | { | |
87714904 NIS |
229 | my $line = <$fh>; |
230 | chomp($line); | |
231 | my $page = hex($line); | |
656753f8 NIS |
232 | my @page; |
233 | my $ch = $page * 256; | |
234 | for (my $i = 0; $i < 16; $i++) | |
235 | { | |
236 | my $line = <$fh>; | |
237 | for (my $j = 0; $j < 16; $j++) | |
238 | { | |
239 | my $val = hex(substr($line,0,4,'')); | |
240 | if ($val || !$ch) | |
241 | { | |
242 | my $uch = chr($val); | |
243 | push(@page,$uch); | |
87714904 | 244 | $fmuni{$uch} = $ch; |
656753f8 NIS |
245 | $count++; |
246 | } | |
247 | else | |
248 | { | |
249 | push(@page,undef); | |
250 | } | |
251 | $ch++; | |
252 | } | |
253 | } | |
254 | $touni[$page] = \@page; | |
255 | } | |
256 | ||
257 | return bless {Name => $name, | |
258 | Rep => $rep, | |
259 | ToUni => \@touni, | |
260 | FmUni => \%fmuni, | |
261 | Def => $def, | |
262 | Num => $count, | |
263 | },$class; | |
264 | } | |
265 | ||
266 | sub name { shift->{'Name'} } | |
267 | ||
268 | sub rep_S { 'C' } | |
269 | ||
5dcbab34 | 270 | sub rep_D { 'n' } |
656753f8 | 271 | |
5dcbab34 | 272 | sub rep_M { ($_[0] > 255) ? 'n' : 'C' } |
656753f8 NIS |
273 | |
274 | sub representation | |
275 | { | |
276 | my ($obj,$ch) = @_; | |
277 | $ch = 0 unless @_ > 1; | |
278 | $obj-{'Rep'}->($ch); | |
279 | } | |
280 | ||
50d26985 | 281 | sub decode |
656753f8 | 282 | { |
bf230f3d | 283 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; |
656753f8 NIS |
284 | my $rep = $obj->{'Rep'}; |
285 | my $touni = $obj->{'ToUni'}; | |
286 | my $uni = ''; | |
287 | while (length($str)) | |
288 | { | |
289 | my $ch = ord(substr($str,0,1,'')); | |
bf230f3d | 290 | my $x; |
656753f8 NIS |
291 | if (&$rep($ch) eq 'C') |
292 | { | |
bf230f3d | 293 | $x = $touni->[0][$ch]; |
656753f8 NIS |
294 | } |
295 | else | |
296 | { | |
bf230f3d | 297 | $x = $touni->[$ch][ord(substr($str,0,1,''))]; |
656753f8 | 298 | } |
bf230f3d NIS |
299 | unless (defined $x) |
300 | { | |
301 | last if $chk; | |
302 | # What do we do here ? | |
303 | $x = ''; | |
304 | } | |
305 | $uni .= $x; | |
656753f8 | 306 | } |
bf230f3d | 307 | $_[1] = $str if $chk; |
656753f8 NIS |
308 | return $uni; |
309 | } | |
310 | ||
50d26985 | 311 | sub encode |
656753f8 | 312 | { |
bf230f3d | 313 | my ($obj,$uni,$chk) = @_; |
656753f8 NIS |
314 | my $fmuni = $obj->{'FmUni'}; |
315 | my $str = ''; | |
316 | my $def = $obj->{'Def'}; | |
87714904 | 317 | my $rep = $obj->{'Rep'}; |
656753f8 NIS |
318 | while (length($uni)) |
319 | { | |
320 | my $ch = substr($uni,0,1,''); | |
63eec5db | 321 | my $x = $fmuni->{chr(ord($ch))}; |
bf230f3d NIS |
322 | unless (defined $x) |
323 | { | |
324 | last if ($chk); | |
325 | $x = $def; | |
326 | } | |
87714904 NIS |
327 | $str .= pack(&$rep($x),$x); |
328 | } | |
329 | $_[1] = $uni if $chk; | |
330 | return $str; | |
331 | } | |
332 | ||
9b37254d | 333 | package Encode::iso10646_1; |
50d26985 NIS |
334 | use base 'Encode::Encoding'; |
335 | ||
9b37254d NIS |
336 | # Encoding is 16-bit network order Unicode |
337 | # Used for X font encodings | |
87714904 NIS |
338 | |
339 | sub name { 'iso10646-1' } | |
340 | ||
50d26985 | 341 | sub decode |
87714904 NIS |
342 | { |
343 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; | |
344 | my $uni = ''; | |
345 | while (length($str)) | |
346 | { | |
5dcbab34 | 347 | my $code = unpack('n',substr($str,0,2,'')) & 0xffff; |
87714904 NIS |
348 | $uni .= chr($code); |
349 | } | |
350 | $_[1] = $str if $chk; | |
a12c0f56 | 351 | Encode::utf8_upgrade($uni); |
87714904 NIS |
352 | return $uni; |
353 | } | |
354 | ||
50d26985 | 355 | sub encode |
87714904 NIS |
356 | { |
357 | my ($obj,$uni,$chk) = @_; | |
358 | my $str = ''; | |
359 | while (length($uni)) | |
360 | { | |
361 | my $ch = substr($uni,0,1,''); | |
362 | my $x = ord($ch); | |
363 | unless ($x < 32768) | |
364 | { | |
365 | last if ($chk); | |
366 | $x = 0; | |
367 | } | |
5dcbab34 | 368 | $str .= pack('n',$x); |
656753f8 | 369 | } |
bf230f3d | 370 | $_[1] = $uni if $chk; |
656753f8 NIS |
371 | return $str; |
372 | } | |
373 | ||
2f2b4ff2 | 374 | |
656753f8 | 375 | package Encode::Escape; |
50d26985 NIS |
376 | use base 'Encode::Encoding'; |
377 | ||
656753f8 NIS |
378 | use Carp; |
379 | ||
380 | sub read | |
381 | { | |
382 | my ($class,$fh,$name) = @_; | |
383 | my %self = (Name => $name, Num => 0); | |
384 | while (<$fh>) | |
385 | { | |
386 | my ($key,$val) = /^(\S+)\s+(.*)$/; | |
387 | $val =~ s/^\{(.*?)\}/$1/g; | |
388 | $val =~ s/\\x([0-9a-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge; | |
389 | $self{$key} = $val; | |
390 | } | |
391 | return bless \%self,$class; | |
392 | } | |
393 | ||
394 | sub name { shift->{'Name'} } | |
395 | ||
50d26985 | 396 | sub decode |
656753f8 NIS |
397 | { |
398 | croak("Not implemented yet"); | |
399 | } | |
400 | ||
50d26985 | 401 | sub encode |
656753f8 NIS |
402 | { |
403 | croak("Not implemented yet"); | |
404 | } | |
405 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
406 | # switch back to Encode package in case we ever add AutoLoader |
407 | package Encode; | |
408 | ||
656753f8 NIS |
409 | 1; |
410 | ||
2a936312 NIS |
411 | __END__ |
412 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
413 | =head1 NAME |
414 | ||
415 | Encode - character encodings | |
416 | ||
417 | =head1 SYNOPSIS | |
418 | ||
419 | use Encode; | |
420 | ||
421 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
422 | ||
423 | The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between perl's strings | |
424 | and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of B<characters>. | |
425 | ||
426 | The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that | |
427 | defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal values | |
428 | of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode codepoint" for | |
429 | the character (the exceptions are those platforms where the legacy | |
430 | encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set of ASCII | |
431 | - see L<perlebcdic>). | |
432 | ||
433 | Traditionaly computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks | |
434 | often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in | |
435 | networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of | |
436 | many types - not only strings of characters representing human or | |
437 | computer languages but also "binary" data being the machines representation | |
438 | of numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything. | |
439 | ||
440 | When perl is processing "binary data" the programmer wants perl to process | |
441 | "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for perl - as a byte has 256 | |
442 | possible values it easily fits in perl's much larger "logical character". | |
443 | ||
444 | =head2 TERMINOLOGY | |
445 | ||
446 | =over | |
447 | ||
448 | =item * | |
449 | ||
450 | I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more). | |
451 | (What perl's strings are made of.) | |
452 | ||
453 | =item * | |
454 | ||
455 | I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255 | |
456 | (A special case of a perl character.) | |
457 | ||
458 | =item * | |
459 | ||
460 | I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255 | |
461 | (Term for bytes passed to or from a non-perl context, e.g. disk file.) | |
462 | ||
463 | =back | |
464 | ||
465 | The marker [INTERNAL] marks Internal Implementation Details, in | |
466 | general meant only for those who think they know what they are doing, | |
467 | and such details may change in future releases. | |
468 | ||
469 | =head1 ENCODINGS | |
470 | ||
471 | =head2 Characteristics of an Encoding | |
472 | ||
473 | An encoding has a "repertoire" of characters that it can represent, | |
474 | and for each representable character there is at least one sequence of | |
475 | octets that represents it. | |
476 | ||
477 | =head2 Types of Encodings | |
478 | ||
479 | Encodings can be divided into the following types: | |
480 | ||
481 | =over 4 | |
482 | ||
483 | =item * Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings. | |
484 | ||
485 | Each character is a single octet so may have a repertoire of up to | |
486 | 256 characters. ASCII and iso-8859-* are typical examples. | |
487 | ||
488 | =item * Fixed length 16-bit encodings | |
489 | ||
490 | Each character is two octets so may have a repertoire of up to | |
491 | 65,536 characters. Unicode's UCS-2 is an example. Also used for | |
492 | encodings for East Asian languages. | |
493 | ||
494 | =item * Fixed length 32-bit encodings. | |
495 | ||
496 | Not really very "encoded" encodings. The Unicode code points | |
497 | are just represented as 4-octet integers. None the less because | |
498 | different architectures use different representations of integers | |
499 | (so called "endian") there at least two disctinct encodings. | |
500 | ||
501 | =item * Multi-byte encodings | |
502 | ||
503 | The number of octets needed to represent a character varies. | |
504 | UTF-8 is a particularly complex but regular case of a multi-byte | |
505 | encoding. Several East Asian countries use a multi-byte encoding | |
506 | where 1-octet is used to cover western roman characters and Asian | |
507 | characters get 2-octets. | |
508 | (UTF-16 is strictly a multi-byte encoding taking either 2 or 4 octets | |
509 | to represent a Unicode code point.) | |
510 | ||
511 | =item * "Escape" encodings. | |
512 | ||
513 | These encodings embed "escape sequences" into the octet sequence | |
514 | which describe how the following octets are to be interpreted. | |
515 | The iso-2022-* family is typical. Following the escape sequence | |
516 | octets are encoded by an "embedded" encoding (which will be one | |
517 | of the above types) until another escape sequence switches to | |
518 | a different "embedded" encoding. | |
519 | ||
520 | These schemes are very flexible and can handle mixed languages but are | |
521 | very complex to process (and have state). | |
522 | No escape encodings are implemented for perl yet. | |
523 | ||
524 | =back | |
525 | ||
526 | =head2 Specifying Encodings | |
527 | ||
528 | Encodings can be specified to the API described below in two ways: | |
529 | ||
530 | =over 4 | |
531 | ||
532 | =item 1. By name | |
533 | ||
534 | Encoding names are strings with characters taken from a restricted repertoire. | |
535 | See L</"Encoding Names">. | |
536 | ||
537 | =item 2. As an object | |
538 | ||
539 | Encoding objects are returned by C<find_encoding($name)>. | |
540 | ||
541 | =back | |
542 | ||
543 | =head2 Encoding Names | |
544 | ||
545 | Encoding names are case insensitive. White space in names is ignored. | |
546 | In addition an encoding may have aliases. Each encoding has one "canonical" name. | |
547 | The "canonical" name is chosen from the names of the encoding by picking | |
548 | the first in the following sequence: | |
549 | ||
550 | =over 4 | |
551 | ||
552 | =item * The MIME name as defined in IETF RFC-XXXX. | |
553 | ||
554 | =item * The name in the IANA registry. | |
555 | ||
556 | =item * The name used by the the organization that defined it. | |
557 | ||
558 | =back | |
559 | ||
560 | Because of all the alias issues, and because in the general case | |
561 | encodings have state C<Encode> uses the encoding object internally | |
562 | once an operation is in progress. | |
563 | ||
564 | I<Aliasing is not yet implemented.> | |
565 | ||
566 | =head1 PERL ENCODING API | |
567 | ||
568 | =head2 Generic Encoding Interface | |
569 | ||
570 | =over 4 | |
571 | ||
572 | =item * | |
573 | ||
574 | $bytes = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK]) | |
575 | ||
576 | Encodes string from perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns a | |
577 | sequence of octets. | |
578 | See L</"Handling Malformed Data">. | |
579 | ||
580 | =item * | |
581 | ||
582 | $string = decode(ENCODING, $bytes[, CHECK]) | |
583 | ||
584 | Decode sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into perls internal | |
585 | form and returns the resuting string. | |
586 | See L</"Handling Malformed Data">. | |
587 | ||
588 | =back | |
589 | ||
590 | =head2 Handling Malformed Data | |
591 | ||
592 | If CHECK is not set, C<undef> is returned. If the data is supposed to | |
593 | be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning (category utf8) is given. | |
594 | If CHECK is true but not a code reference, dies. | |
595 | ||
596 | It would desirable to have a way to indicate that transform should use the | |
597 | encodings "replacement character" - no such mechanism is defined yet. | |
598 | ||
599 | It is also planned to allow I<CHECK> to be a code reference. | |
600 | ||
601 | This is not yet implemented as there are design issues with what its arguments | |
602 | should be and how it returns its results. | |
603 | ||
604 | =over 4 | |
605 | ||
606 | =item Scheme 1 | |
607 | ||
608 | Passed remaining fragment of string being processed. | |
609 | Modifies it in place to remove bytes/characters it can understand | |
610 | and returns a string used to represent them. | |
611 | e.g. | |
612 | ||
613 | sub fixup { | |
614 | my $ch = substr($_[0],0,1,''); | |
615 | return sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch); | |
616 | } | |
617 | ||
618 | This scheme is close to how underlying C code for Encode works, but gives | |
619 | the fixup routine very little context. | |
620 | ||
621 | =item Scheme 2 | |
622 | ||
623 | Passed original string, and an index into it of the problem area, | |
624 | and output string so far. | |
625 | Appends what it will to output string and returns new index into | |
626 | original string. | |
627 | e.g. | |
628 | ||
629 | sub fixup { | |
630 | # my ($s,$i,$d) = @_; | |
631 | my $ch = substr($_[0],$_[1],1); | |
632 | $_[2] .= sprintf("\x{%02X}",ord($ch); | |
633 | return $_[1]+1; | |
634 | } | |
635 | ||
636 | This scheme gives maximal control to the fixup routine but is more complicated | |
637 | to code, and may need internals of Encode to be tweaked to keep original | |
638 | string intact. | |
639 | ||
640 | =item Other Schemes | |
641 | ||
642 | Hybrids of above. | |
643 | ||
644 | Multiple return values rather than in-place modifications. | |
645 | ||
646 | Index into the string could be pos($str) allowing s/\G...//. | |
647 | ||
648 | =back | |
649 | ||
650 | =head2 UTF-8 / utf8 | |
651 | ||
652 | The Unicode consortium defines the UTF-8 standard as a way of encoding | |
653 | the entire Unicode repertiore as sequences of octets. This encoding | |
654 | is expected to become very widespread. Perl can use this form internaly | |
655 | to represent strings, so conversions to and from this form are particularly | |
656 | efficient (as octets in memory do not have to change, just the meta-data | |
657 | that tells perl how to treat them). | |
658 | ||
659 | =over 4 | |
660 | ||
661 | =item * | |
662 | ||
663 | $bytes = encode_utf8($string); | |
664 | ||
665 | The characters that comprise string are encoded in perl's superset of UTF-8 | |
666 | and the resulting octets returned as a sequence of bytes. All possible | |
667 | characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail. | |
668 | ||
669 | =item * | |
670 | ||
671 | $string = decode_utf8($bytes [,CHECK]); | |
672 | ||
673 | The sequence of octets represented by $bytes is decoded from UTF-8 into | |
674 | a sequence of logical characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid | |
675 | UTF-8 encodings, so it is possible for this call to fail. | |
676 | See L</"Handling Malformed Data">. | |
677 | ||
678 | =back | |
679 | ||
680 | =head2 Other Encodings of Unicode | |
681 | ||
682 | UTF-16 is similar to UCS-2, 16 bit or 2-byte chunks. | |
683 | UCS-2 can only represent 0..0xFFFF, while UTF-16 has a "surogate pair" | |
684 | scheme which allows it to cover the whole Unicode range. | |
685 | ||
686 | Encode implements big-endian UCS-2 as the encoding "iso10646-1" as that | |
687 | happens to be the name used by that representation when used with X11 fonts. | |
688 | ||
689 | UTF-32 or UCS-4 is 32-bit or 4-byte chunks. Perl's logical characters | |
690 | can be considered as being in this form without encoding. An encoding | |
691 | to transfer strings in this form (e.g. to write them to a file) would need to | |
692 | ||
693 | pack('L',map(chr($_),split(//,$string))); # native | |
694 | or | |
695 | pack('V',map(chr($_),split(//,$string))); # little-endian | |
696 | or | |
697 | pack('N',map(chr($_),split(//,$string))); # big-endian | |
698 | ||
699 | depending on the endian required. | |
700 | ||
701 | No UTF-32 encodings are not yet implemented. | |
702 | ||
703 | Both UCS-2 and UCS-4 style encodings can have "byte order marks" by representing | |
704 | the code point 0xFFFE as the very first thing in a file. | |
705 | ||
706 | =head1 Encoding and IO | |
707 | ||
708 | It is very common to want to do encoding transformations when | |
709 | reading or writing files, network connections, pipes etc. | |
710 | If perl is configured to use the new 'perlio' IO system then | |
711 | C<Encode> provides a "layer" (See L<perliol>) which can transform | |
712 | data as it is read or written. | |
713 | ||
714 | open(my $ilyad,'>:encoding(iso8859-7)','ilyad.greek'); | |
715 | print $ilyad @epic; | |
716 | ||
717 | In addition the new IO system can also be configured to read/write | |
718 | UTF-8 encoded characters (as noted above this is efficient): | |
719 | ||
720 | open(my $fh,'>:utf8','anything'); | |
721 | print $fh "Any \x{0021} string \N{SMILEY FACE}\n"; | |
722 | ||
723 | Either of the above forms of "layer" specifications can be made the default | |
724 | for a lexical scope with the C<use open ...> pragma. See L<open>. | |
725 | ||
726 | Once a handle is open is layers can be altered using C<binmode>. | |
727 | ||
728 | Without any such configuration, or if perl itself is built using | |
729 | system's own IO, then write operations assume that file handle accepts | |
730 | only I<bytes> and will C<die> if a character larger than 255 is | |
731 | written to the handle. When reading, each octet from the handle | |
732 | becomes a byte-in-a-character. Note that this default is the same | |
733 | behaviour as bytes-only languages (including perl before v5.6) would have, | |
734 | and is sufficient to handle native 8-bit encodings e.g. iso-8859-1, | |
735 | EBCDIC etc. and any legacy mechanisms for handling other encodings | |
736 | and binary data. | |
737 | ||
738 | In other cases it is the programs responsibility | |
739 | to transform characters into bytes using the API above before | |
740 | doing writes, and to transform the bytes read from a handle into characters | |
741 | before doing "character operations" (e.g. C<lc>, C</\W+/>, ...). | |
742 | ||
743 | =head1 Encoding How to ... | |
744 | ||
745 | To do: | |
746 | ||
747 | =over 4 | |
748 | ||
749 | =item * IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*) | |
750 | ||
751 | =item * MIME's Content-Length: | |
752 | ||
753 | =item * UTF-8 strings in binary data. | |
754 | ||
755 | =item * perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules. | |
756 | ||
757 | =back | |
758 | ||
759 | =head1 Messing with Perl's Internals | |
760 | ||
761 | The following API uses parts of perl's internals in the current implementation. | |
762 | As such they are efficient, but may change. | |
763 | ||
764 | =over 4 | |
765 | ||
766 | =item * | |
767 | ||
768 | $num_octets = utf8_upgrade($string); | |
769 | ||
770 | Converts internal representation of string to the UTF-8 form. | |
771 | Returns the number of octets necessary to represent the string as UTF-8. | |
772 | ||
773 | =item * utf8_downgrade($string[, CHECK]) | |
774 | ||
775 | Converts internal representation of string to be un-encoded bytes. | |
776 | ||
777 | =item * is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]) | |
778 | ||
779 | [INTERNAL] Test whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING. | |
780 | If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being | |
781 | well-formed UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. | |
782 | ||
783 | =item * valid_utf8(STRING) | |
784 | ||
785 | [INTERNAL] Test whether STRING is in a consistent state. | |
786 | Will return true if string is held as bytes, or is well-formed UTF-8 | |
787 | and has the UTF-8 flag on. | |
788 | Main reason for this routine is to allow perl's testsuite to check | |
789 | that operations have left strings in a consistent state. | |
790 | ||
791 | =item * | |
792 | ||
793 | _utf8_on(STRING) | |
794 | ||
795 | [INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is | |
796 | B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you | |
797 | B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous | |
798 | state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the return value as | |
799 | I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string. | |
800 | ||
801 | =item * | |
802 | ||
803 | _utf8_off(STRING) | |
804 | ||
805 | [INTERNAL] Turn off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously. | |
806 | Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't test the | |
807 | return value as I<not> success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is | |
808 | not a string. | |
809 | ||
810 | =back | |
811 | ||
812 | =head1 SEE ALSO | |
813 | ||
814 | L<perlunicode>, L<perlebcdic>, L<perlfunc/open> | |
815 | ||
816 | =cut | |
817 | ||
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