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2c674647 | 1 | package Encode; |
51ef4e11 | 2 | use strict; |
fc17bd48 | 3 | our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 1.62 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; |
5129552c | 4 | our $DEBUG = 0; |
6d1c0808 JH |
5 | use XSLoader (); |
6 | XSLoader::load 'Encode'; | |
2c674647 | 7 | |
2c674647 | 8 | require Exporter; |
7e19fb92 | 9 | use base qw/Exporter/; |
2c674647 | 10 | |
4411f3b6 | 11 | # Public, encouraged API is exported by default |
85982a32 JH |
12 | |
13 | our @EXPORT = qw( | |
14 | decode decode_utf8 encode encode_utf8 | |
15 | encodings find_encoding | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
16 | ); |
17 | ||
af1f55d9 JH |
18 | our @FB_FLAGS = qw(DIE_ON_ERR WARN_ON_ERR RETURN_ON_ERR LEAVE_SRC |
19 | PERLQQ HTMLCREF XMLCREF); | |
20 | our @FB_CONSTS = qw(FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN | |
21 | FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF); | |
85982a32 | 22 | |
51ef4e11 | 23 | our @EXPORT_OK = |
6d1c0808 | 24 | ( |
85982a32 JH |
25 | qw( |
26 | _utf8_off _utf8_on define_encoding from_to is_16bit is_8bit | |
27 | is_utf8 perlio_ok resolve_alias utf8_downgrade utf8_upgrade | |
28 | ), | |
29 | @FB_FLAGS, @FB_CONSTS, | |
30 | ); | |
31 | ||
6d1c0808 | 32 | our %EXPORT_TAGS = |
85982a32 JH |
33 | ( |
34 | all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ], | |
35 | fallbacks => [ @FB_CONSTS ], | |
36 | fallback_all => [ @FB_CONSTS, @FB_FLAGS ], | |
37 | ); | |
38 | ||
4411f3b6 | 39 | # Documentation moved after __END__ for speed - NI-S |
2c674647 | 40 | |
bf230f3d NIS |
41 | use Carp; |
42 | ||
a63c962f | 43 | our $ON_EBCDIC = (ord("A") == 193); |
f2a2953c | 44 | |
5d030b67 JH |
45 | use Encode::Alias; |
46 | ||
5129552c JH |
47 | # Make a %Encoding package variable to allow a certain amount of cheating |
48 | our %Encoding; | |
aae85ceb DK |
49 | our %ExtModule; |
50 | require Encode::Config; | |
51 | eval { require Encode::ConfigLocal }; | |
5129552c | 52 | |
656753f8 NIS |
53 | sub encodings |
54 | { | |
5129552c | 55 | my $class = shift; |
fc17bd48 JH |
56 | my %enc; |
57 | if (@_ and $_[0] eq ":all"){ | |
58 | %enc = ( %Encoding, %ExtModule ); | |
59 | }else{ | |
60 | %enc = %Encoding; | |
61 | for my $mod (map {m/::/o ? $_ : "Encode::$_" } @_){ | |
62 | $DEBUG and warn $mod; | |
63 | for my $enc (keys %ExtModule){ | |
64 | $ExtModule{$enc} eq $mod and $enc{$enc} = $mod; | |
65 | } | |
66 | } | |
5129552c JH |
67 | } |
68 | return | |
ce912cd4 | 69 | sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } |
fc17bd48 | 70 | grep {!/^(?:Internal|Unicode|Guess)$/o} keys %enc; |
51ef4e11 NIS |
71 | } |
72 | ||
85982a32 | 73 | sub perlio_ok{ |
0ab8f81e | 74 | my $obj = ref($_[0]) ? $_[0] : find_encoding($_[0]); |
011b2d2f | 75 | $obj->can("perlio_ok") and return $obj->perlio_ok(); |
0ab8f81e | 76 | return 0; # safety net |
85982a32 JH |
77 | } |
78 | ||
51ef4e11 NIS |
79 | sub define_encoding |
80 | { | |
18586f54 NIS |
81 | my $obj = shift; |
82 | my $name = shift; | |
5129552c | 83 | $Encoding{$name} = $obj; |
18586f54 NIS |
84 | my $lc = lc($name); |
85 | define_alias($lc => $obj) unless $lc eq $name; | |
86 | while (@_) | |
87 | { | |
88 | my $alias = shift; | |
89 | define_alias($alias,$obj); | |
90 | } | |
91 | return $obj; | |
656753f8 NIS |
92 | } |
93 | ||
656753f8 NIS |
94 | sub getEncoding |
95 | { | |
dd9703c9 | 96 | my ($class,$name,$skip_external) = @_; |
18586f54 NIS |
97 | my $enc; |
98 | if (ref($name) && $name->can('new_sequence')) | |
99 | { | |
100 | return $name; | |
101 | } | |
102 | my $lc = lc $name; | |
5129552c | 103 | if (exists $Encoding{$name}) |
18586f54 | 104 | { |
5129552c | 105 | return $Encoding{$name}; |
18586f54 | 106 | } |
5129552c | 107 | if (exists $Encoding{$lc}) |
18586f54 | 108 | { |
5129552c | 109 | return $Encoding{$lc}; |
18586f54 | 110 | } |
c50d192e | 111 | |
5129552c | 112 | my $oc = $class->find_alias($name); |
c50d192e AT |
113 | return $oc if defined $oc; |
114 | ||
5129552c | 115 | $oc = $class->find_alias($lc) if $lc ne $name; |
c50d192e AT |
116 | return $oc if defined $oc; |
117 | ||
c731e18e | 118 | unless ($skip_external) |
d1ed7747 | 119 | { |
c731e18e JH |
120 | if (my $mod = $ExtModule{$name} || $ExtModule{$lc}){ |
121 | $mod =~ s,::,/,g ; $mod .= '.pm'; | |
122 | eval{ require $mod; }; | |
123 | return $Encoding{$name} if exists $Encoding{$name}; | |
124 | } | |
d1ed7747 | 125 | } |
18586f54 | 126 | return; |
656753f8 NIS |
127 | } |
128 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
129 | sub find_encoding |
130 | { | |
dd9703c9 AT |
131 | my ($name,$skip_external) = @_; |
132 | return __PACKAGE__->getEncoding($name,$skip_external); | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
133 | } |
134 | ||
fcb875d4 JH |
135 | sub resolve_alias { |
136 | my $obj = find_encoding(shift); | |
137 | defined $obj and return $obj->name; | |
138 | return; | |
139 | } | |
140 | ||
b2704119 | 141 | sub encode($$;$) |
4411f3b6 | 142 | { |
18586f54 | 143 | my ($name,$string,$check) = @_; |
b2704119 | 144 | $check ||=0; |
18586f54 NIS |
145 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
146 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; | |
147 | my $octets = $enc->encode($string,$check); | |
148 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); | |
149 | return $octets; | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
150 | } |
151 | ||
b2704119 | 152 | sub decode($$;$) |
4411f3b6 | 153 | { |
18586f54 | 154 | my ($name,$octets,$check) = @_; |
b2704119 | 155 | $check ||=0; |
18586f54 NIS |
156 | my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
157 | croak("Unknown encoding '$name'") unless defined $enc; | |
158 | my $string = $enc->decode($octets,$check); | |
159 | $_[1] = $octets if $check; | |
160 | return $string; | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
161 | } |
162 | ||
b2704119 | 163 | sub from_to($$$;$) |
4411f3b6 | 164 | { |
18586f54 | 165 | my ($string,$from,$to,$check) = @_; |
b2704119 | 166 | $check ||=0; |
18586f54 NIS |
167 | my $f = find_encoding($from); |
168 | croak("Unknown encoding '$from'") unless defined $f; | |
169 | my $t = find_encoding($to); | |
170 | croak("Unknown encoding '$to'") unless defined $t; | |
171 | my $uni = $f->decode($string,$check); | |
172 | return undef if ($check && length($string)); | |
a999c27c | 173 | $string = $t->encode($uni,$check); |
18586f54 | 174 | return undef if ($check && length($uni)); |
3ef515df | 175 | return defined($_[0] = $string) ? length($string) : undef ; |
4411f3b6 NIS |
176 | } |
177 | ||
b2704119 | 178 | sub encode_utf8($) |
4411f3b6 | 179 | { |
18586f54 | 180 | my ($str) = @_; |
c731e18e | 181 | utf8::encode($str); |
18586f54 | 182 | return $str; |
4411f3b6 NIS |
183 | } |
184 | ||
b2704119 | 185 | sub decode_utf8($) |
4411f3b6 | 186 | { |
18586f54 NIS |
187 | my ($str) = @_; |
188 | return undef unless utf8::decode($str); | |
189 | return $str; | |
5ad8ef52 NIS |
190 | } |
191 | ||
f2a2953c JH |
192 | predefine_encodings(); |
193 | ||
194 | # | |
195 | # This is to restore %Encoding if really needed; | |
196 | # | |
197 | sub predefine_encodings{ | |
6d1c0808 | 198 | if ($ON_EBCDIC) { |
f2a2953c JH |
199 | # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC |
200 | package Encode::UTF_EBCDIC; | |
201 | *name = sub{ shift->{'Name'} }; | |
202 | *new_sequence = sub{ return $_[0] }; | |
af1f55d9 JH |
203 | *needs_lines = sub{ 0 }; |
204 | *perlio_ok = sub { | |
205 | eval{ require PerlIO::encoding }; | |
206 | return $@ ? 0 : 1; | |
207 | }; | |
f2a2953c JH |
208 | *decode = sub{ |
209 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; | |
210 | my $res = ''; | |
211 | for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) { | |
6d1c0808 | 212 | $res .= |
f2a2953c JH |
213 | chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(ord(substr($str,$i,1)))); |
214 | } | |
215 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
216 | return $res; | |
217 | }; | |
218 | *encode = sub{ | |
219 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; | |
220 | my $res = ''; | |
221 | for (my $i = 0; $i < length($str); $i++) { | |
6d1c0808 | 222 | $res .= |
f2a2953c JH |
223 | chr(utf8::native_to_unicode(ord(substr($str,$i,1)))); |
224 | } | |
225 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
226 | return $res; | |
227 | }; | |
6d1c0808 | 228 | $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} = |
c731e18e | 229 | bless {Name => "UTF_EBCDIC"} => "Encode::UTF_EBCDIC"; |
6d1c0808 | 230 | } else { |
f2a2953c JH |
231 | # was in Encode::UTF_EBCDIC |
232 | package Encode::Internal; | |
233 | *name = sub{ shift->{'Name'} }; | |
234 | *new_sequence = sub{ return $_[0] }; | |
af1f55d9 JH |
235 | *needs_lines = sub{ 0 }; |
236 | *perlio_ok = sub { | |
237 | eval{ require PerlIO::encoding }; | |
238 | return $@ ? 0 : 1; | |
239 | }; | |
f2a2953c JH |
240 | *decode = sub{ |
241 | my ($obj,$str,$chk) = @_; | |
242 | utf8::upgrade($str); | |
243 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
244 | return $str; | |
245 | }; | |
246 | *encode = \&decode; | |
6d1c0808 | 247 | $Encode::Encoding{Unicode} = |
c731e18e | 248 | bless {Name => "Internal"} => "Encode::Internal"; |
f2a2953c JH |
249 | } |
250 | ||
251 | { | |
252 | # was in Encode::utf8 | |
253 | package Encode::utf8; | |
254 | *name = sub{ shift->{'Name'} }; | |
255 | *new_sequence = sub{ return $_[0] }; | |
af1f55d9 JH |
256 | *needs_lines = sub{ 0 }; |
257 | *perlio_ok = sub { | |
258 | eval{ require PerlIO::encoding }; | |
259 | return $@ ? 0 : 1; | |
260 | }; | |
f2a2953c JH |
261 | *decode = sub{ |
262 | my ($obj,$octets,$chk) = @_; | |
263 | my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets); | |
264 | if (defined $str) { | |
265 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
266 | return $str; | |
267 | } | |
268 | return undef; | |
269 | }; | |
270 | *encode = sub { | |
271 | my ($obj,$string,$chk) = @_; | |
272 | my $octets = Encode::encode_utf8($string); | |
273 | $_[1] = '' if $chk; | |
274 | return $octets; | |
275 | }; | |
0ab8f81e | 276 | $Encode::Encoding{utf8} = |
c731e18e | 277 | bless {Name => "utf8"} => "Encode::utf8"; |
f2a2953c | 278 | } |
f2a2953c JH |
279 | } |
280 | ||
656753f8 NIS |
281 | 1; |
282 | ||
2a936312 NIS |
283 | __END__ |
284 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
285 | =head1 NAME |
286 | ||
287 | Encode - character encodings | |
288 | ||
289 | =head1 SYNOPSIS | |
290 | ||
291 | use Encode; | |
292 | ||
67d7b5ef JH |
293 | =head2 Table of Contents |
294 | ||
0ab8f81e | 295 | Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too big |
67d7b5ef | 296 | to fit in one document. This POD itself explains the top-level APIs |
6d1c0808 | 297 | and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details, |
0ab8f81e | 298 | see the PODs below: |
67d7b5ef JH |
299 | |
300 | Name Description | |
301 | -------------------------------------------------------- | |
6d1c0808 | 302 | Encode::Alias Alias definitions to encodings |
67d7b5ef JH |
303 | Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class |
304 | Encode::Supported List of Supported Encodings | |
305 | Encode::CN Simplified Chinese Encodings | |
306 | Encode::JP Japanese Encodings | |
307 | Encode::KR Korean Encodings | |
308 | Encode::TW Traditional Chinese Encodings | |
309 | -------------------------------------------------------- | |
310 | ||
4411f3b6 NIS |
311 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
312 | ||
47bfe92f | 313 | The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings |
67d7b5ef JH |
314 | and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of |
315 | B<characters>. | |
316 | ||
317 | The repertoire of characters that Perl can represent is at least that | |
318 | defined by the Unicode Consortium. On most platforms the ordinal | |
319 | values of the characters (as returned by C<ord(ch)>) is the "Unicode | |
320 | codepoint" for the character (the exceptions are those platforms where | |
321 | the legacy encoding is some variant of EBCDIC rather than a super-set | |
322 | of ASCII - see L<perlebcdic>). | |
323 | ||
0ab8f81e | 324 | Traditionally, computer data has been moved around in 8-bit chunks |
67d7b5ef JH |
325 | often called "bytes". These chunks are also known as "octets" in |
326 | networking standards. Perl is widely used to manipulate data of many | |
327 | types - not only strings of characters representing human or computer | |
0ab8f81e | 328 | languages but also "binary" data being the machine's representation of |
67d7b5ef JH |
329 | numbers, pixels in an image - or just about anything. |
330 | ||
0ab8f81e | 331 | When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to |
67d7b5ef | 332 | process "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a |
0ab8f81e | 333 | byte has 256 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger |
67d7b5ef JH |
334 | "logical character". |
335 | ||
336 | =head2 TERMINOLOGY | |
4411f3b6 | 337 | |
7e19fb92 | 338 | =over 2 |
21938dfa | 339 | |
67d7b5ef JH |
340 | =item * |
341 | ||
342 | I<character>: a character in the range 0..(2**32-1) (or more). | |
343 | (What Perl's strings are made of.) | |
344 | ||
345 | =item * | |
346 | ||
347 | I<byte>: a character in the range 0..255 | |
348 | (A special case of a Perl character.) | |
349 | ||
350 | =item * | |
351 | ||
352 | I<octet>: 8 bits of data, with ordinal values 0..255 | |
0ab8f81e | 353 | (Term for bytes passed to or from a non-Perl context, e.g. a disk file.) |
67d7b5ef JH |
354 | |
355 | =back | |
4411f3b6 | 356 | |
67d7b5ef JH |
357 | The marker [INTERNAL] marks Internal Implementation Details, in |
358 | general meant only for those who think they know what they are doing, | |
359 | and such details may change in future releases. | |
360 | ||
361 | =head1 PERL ENCODING API | |
4411f3b6 | 362 | |
7e19fb92 | 363 | =over 2 |
4411f3b6 | 364 | |
f2a2953c | 365 | =item $octets = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK]) |
4411f3b6 | 366 | |
0ab8f81e | 367 | Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into I<ENCODING> and returns |
67d7b5ef | 368 | a sequence of octets. ENCODING can be either a canonical name or |
0ab8f81e JH |
369 | an alias. For encoding names and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. |
370 | For CHECK, see L</"Handling Malformed Data">. | |
4411f3b6 | 371 | |
0ab8f81e | 372 | For example, to convert (internally UTF-8 encoded) Unicode string to |
6d1c0808 | 373 | iso-8859-1 (also known as Latin1), |
681a7c68 | 374 | |
7e19fb92 JH |
375 | $octets = encode("iso-8859-1", $utf8); |
376 | ||
377 | B<CAVEAT>: When you C<$octets = encode("utf8", $utf8)>, then $octets | |
378 | B<ne> $utf8. Though they both contain the same data, the utf8 flag | |
379 | for $octets is B<always> off. When you encode anything, utf8 flag of | |
380 | the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8 | |
381 | string. See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below. | |
681a7c68 | 382 | |
f2a2953c | 383 | =item $string = decode(ENCODING, $octets[, CHECK]) |
4411f3b6 | 384 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
385 | Decodes a sequence of octets assumed to be in I<ENCODING> into Perl's |
386 | internal form and returns the resulting string. As in encode(), | |
387 | ENCODING can be either a canonical name or an alias. For encoding names | |
388 | and aliases, see L</"Defining Aliases">. For CHECK, see | |
47bfe92f JH |
389 | L</"Handling Malformed Data">. |
390 | ||
0ab8f81e | 391 | For example, to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8: |
681a7c68 | 392 | |
67d7b5ef | 393 | $utf8 = decode("iso-8859-1", $latin1); |
681a7c68 | 394 | |
7e19fb92 JH |
395 | B<CAVEAT>: When you C<$utf8 = encode("utf8", $octets)>, then $utf8 |
396 | B<may not be equal to> $utf8. Though they both contain the same data, | |
397 | the utf8 flag for $utf8 is on unless $octets entirely conststs of | |
398 | ASCII data (or EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines). See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> | |
399 | below. | |
47bfe92f | 400 | |
7e19fb92 JH |
401 | =item [$length =] from_to($string, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK]) |
402 | ||
403 | Converts B<in-place> data between two encodings. For example, to | |
404 | convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8: | |
2b106fbe | 405 | |
7e19fb92 | 406 | from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); |
2b106fbe JH |
407 | |
408 | and to convert it back: | |
409 | ||
7e19fb92 | 410 | from_to($data, "utf8", "iso-8859-1"); |
4411f3b6 | 411 | |
ab97ca19 | 412 | Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be |
0ab8f81e | 413 | converted cannot be a string constant; it must be a scalar variable. |
ab97ca19 | 414 | |
0ab8f81e | 415 | from_to() returns the length of the converted string on success, undef |
3ef515df JH |
416 | otherwise. |
417 | ||
7e19fb92 JH |
418 | B<CAVEAT>: The following operations look the same but not quite so; |
419 | ||
420 | from_to($data, "iso-8859-1", "utf8"); #1 | |
421 | $data = decode("iso-8859-1", $data); #2 | |
4411f3b6 | 422 | |
7e19fb92 JH |
423 | Both #1 and #2 makes $data consists of completely valid UTF-8 string |
424 | but only #2 turns utf8 flag on. #1 is equivalent to | |
f2a2953c | 425 | |
7e19fb92 | 426 | $data = encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $data)); |
f2a2953c | 427 | |
7e19fb92 | 428 | See L</"The UTF-8 flag"> below. |
f2a2953c JH |
429 | |
430 | =item $octets = encode_utf8($string); | |
431 | ||
7e19fb92 JH |
432 | Equivalent to C<$octets = encode("utf8", $string);> The characters |
433 | that comprise $string are encoded in Perl's superset of UTF-8 and the | |
434 | resulting octets are returned as a sequence of bytes. All possible | |
435 | characters have a UTF-8 representation so this function cannot fail. | |
436 | ||
f2a2953c JH |
437 | |
438 | =item $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]); | |
439 | ||
7e19fb92 JH |
440 | equivalent to C<$string = decode("utf8", $octets [, CHECK])>. |
441 | decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]); The sequence of octets represented by | |
442 | $octets is decoded from UTF-8 into a sequence of logical | |
443 | characters. Not all sequences of octets form valid UTF-8 encodings, so | |
444 | it is possible for this call to fail. For CHECK, see | |
445 | L</"Handling Malformed Data">. | |
f2a2953c JH |
446 | |
447 | =back | |
448 | ||
51ef4e11 NIS |
449 | =head2 Listing available encodings |
450 | ||
5129552c JH |
451 | use Encode; |
452 | @list = Encode->encodings(); | |
453 | ||
454 | Returns a list of the canonical names of the available encodings that | |
455 | are loaded. To get a list of all available encodings including the | |
456 | ones that are not loaded yet, say | |
457 | ||
458 | @all_encodings = Encode->encodings(":all"); | |
459 | ||
0ab8f81e | 460 | Or you can give the name of a specific module. |
5129552c | 461 | |
c731e18e JH |
462 | @with_jp = Encode->encodings("Encode::JP"); |
463 | ||
464 | When "::" is not in the name, "Encode::" is assumed. | |
51ef4e11 | 465 | |
c731e18e | 466 | @ebcdic = Encode->encodings("EBCDIC"); |
5d030b67 | 467 | |
0ab8f81e | 468 | To find out in detail which encodings are supported by this package, |
5d030b67 | 469 | see L<Encode::Supported>. |
51ef4e11 NIS |
470 | |
471 | =head2 Defining Aliases | |
472 | ||
0ab8f81e | 473 | To add a new alias to a given encoding, use: |
67d7b5ef | 474 | |
5129552c JH |
475 | use Encode; |
476 | use Encode::Alias; | |
a63c962f | 477 | define_alias(newName => ENCODING); |
51ef4e11 | 478 | |
3ef515df | 479 | After that, newName can be used as an alias for ENCODING. |
f2a2953c JH |
480 | ENCODING may be either the name of an encoding or an |
481 | I<encoding object> | |
51ef4e11 | 482 | |
fcb875d4 JH |
483 | But before you do so, make sure the alias is nonexistent with |
484 | C<resolve_alias()>, which returns the canonical name thereof. | |
485 | i.e. | |
486 | ||
487 | Encode::resolve_alias("latin1") eq "iso-8859-1" # true | |
488 | Encode::resolve_alias("iso-8859-12") # false; nonexistent | |
489 | Encode::resolve_alias($name) eq $name # true if $name is canonical | |
490 | ||
0ab8f81e JH |
491 | resolve_alias() does not need C<use Encode::Alias>; it can be |
492 | exported via C<use Encode qw(resolve_alias)>. | |
fcb875d4 | 493 | |
0ab8f81e | 494 | See L<Encode::Alias> for details. |
51ef4e11 | 495 | |
85982a32 | 496 | =head1 Encoding via PerlIO |
4411f3b6 | 497 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
498 | If your perl supports I<PerlIO>, you can use a PerlIO layer to decode |
499 | and encode directly via a filehandle. The following two examples | |
500 | are totally identical in their functionality. | |
4411f3b6 | 501 | |
85982a32 JH |
502 | # via PerlIO |
503 | open my $in, "<:encoding(shiftjis)", $infile or die; | |
504 | open my $out, ">:encoding(euc-jp)", $outfile or die; | |
505 | while(<>){ print; } | |
8e86646e | 506 | |
85982a32 | 507 | # via from_to |
0ab8f81e JH |
508 | open my $in, "<", $infile or die; |
509 | open my $out, ">", $outfile or die; | |
6d1c0808 | 510 | while(<>){ |
0ab8f81e | 511 | from_to($_, "shiftjis", "euc-jp", 1); |
85982a32 | 512 | } |
4411f3b6 | 513 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
514 | Unfortunately, there may be encodings are PerlIO-savvy. You can check |
515 | if your encoding is supported by PerlIO by calling the C<perlio_ok> | |
516 | method. | |
517 | ||
518 | Encode::perlio_ok("hz"); # False | |
519 | find_encoding("euc-cn")->perlio_ok; # True where PerlIO is available | |
520 | ||
521 | use Encode qw(perlio_ok); # exported upon request | |
522 | perlio_ok("euc-jp") | |
4411f3b6 | 523 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
524 | Fortunately, all encodings that come with Encode core are PerlIO-savvy |
525 | except for hz and ISO-2022-kr. See L<Encode::Encoding> for details. | |
4411f3b6 | 526 | |
0ab8f81e | 527 | For gory details, see L<Encode::PerlIO>. |
4411f3b6 | 528 | |
85982a32 | 529 | =head1 Handling Malformed Data |
4411f3b6 | 530 | |
7e19fb92 | 531 | =over 2 |
47bfe92f | 532 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
533 | The I<CHECK> argument is used as follows. When you omit it, |
534 | the behaviour is the same as if you had passed a value of 0 for | |
535 | I<CHECK>. | |
47bfe92f | 536 | |
85982a32 | 537 | =item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0) |
47bfe92f | 538 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
539 | If I<CHECK> is 0, (en|de)code will put a I<substitution character> |
540 | in place of a malformed character. For UCM-based encodings, | |
541 | E<lt>subcharE<gt> will be used. For Unicode, "\x{FFFD}" is used. | |
542 | If the data is supposed to be UTF-8, an optional lexical warning | |
543 | (category utf8) is given. | |
e9692b5b | 544 | |
7e19fb92 | 545 | =item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1) |
e9692b5b | 546 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
547 | If I<CHECK> is 1, methods will die immediately with an error |
548 | message. Therefore, when I<CHECK> is set to 1, you should trap the | |
549 | fatal error with eval{} unless you really want to let it die on error. | |
47bfe92f | 550 | |
85982a32 | 551 | =item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET |
47bfe92f | 552 | |
85982a32 | 553 | If I<CHECK> is set to Encode::FB_QUIET, (en|de)code will immediately |
0ab8f81e JH |
554 | return the portion of the data that has been processed so far when |
555 | an error occurs. The data argument will be overwritten with | |
556 | everything after that point (that is, the unprocessed part of data). | |
557 | This is handy when you have to call decode repeatedly in the case | |
558 | where your source data may contain partial multi-byte character | |
559 | sequences, for example because you are reading with a fixed-width | |
560 | buffer. Here is some sample code that does exactly this: | |
4411f3b6 | 561 | |
85982a32 JH |
562 | my $data = ''; |
563 | while(defined(read $fh, $buffer, 256)){ | |
0ab8f81e | 564 | # buffer may end in a partial character so we append |
85982a32 JH |
565 | $data .= $buffer; |
566 | $utf8 .= decode($encoding, $data, ENCODE::FB_QUIET); | |
0ab8f81e | 567 | # $data now contains the unprocessed partial character |
85982a32 | 568 | } |
1768d7eb | 569 | |
85982a32 | 570 | =item I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN |
67d7b5ef | 571 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
572 | This is the same as above, except that it warns on error. Handy when |
573 | you are debugging the mode above. | |
85982a32 JH |
574 | |
575 | =item perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ) | |
576 | ||
af1f55d9 JH |
577 | =item HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF) |
578 | ||
579 | =item XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF) | |
580 | ||
85982a32 JH |
581 | For encodings that are implemented by Encode::XS, CHECK == |
582 | Encode::FB_PERLQQ turns (en|de)code into C<perlqq> fallback mode. | |
583 | ||
0ab8f81e JH |
584 | When you decode, '\xI<XX>' will be inserted for a malformed character, |
585 | where I<XX> is the hex representation of the octet that could not be | |
586 | decoded to utf8. And when you encode, '\x{I<xxxx>}' will be inserted, | |
587 | where I<xxxx> is the Unicode ID of the character that cannot be found | |
588 | in the character repertoire of the encoding. | |
85982a32 | 589 | |
af1f55d9 JH |
590 | HTML/XML character reference modes are about the same, in place of |
591 | \x{I<xxxx>}, HTML uses &#I<1234>; where I<1234> is a decimal digit and | |
592 | XML uses &#xI<abcd>; where I<abcd> is the hexadecimal digit. | |
593 | ||
85982a32 JH |
594 | =item The bitmask |
595 | ||
0ab8f81e JH |
596 | These modes are actually set via a bitmask. Here is how the FB_XX |
597 | constants are laid out. You can import the FB_XX constants via | |
598 | C<use Encode qw(:fallbacks)>; you can import the generic bitmask | |
599 | constants via C<use Encode qw(:fallback_all)>. | |
85982a32 | 600 | |
b0b300a3 JH |
601 | FB_DEFAULT FB_CROAK FB_QUIET FB_WARN FB_PERLQQ |
602 | DIE_ON_ERR 0x0001 X | |
603 | WARN_ON_ER 0x0002 X | |
604 | RETURN_ON_ERR 0x0004 X X | |
605 | LEAVE_SRC 0x0008 | |
606 | PERLQQ 0x0100 X | |
af1f55d9 JH |
607 | HTMLCREF 0x0200 |
608 | XMLCREF 0x0400 | |
67d7b5ef | 609 | |
0ab8f81e | 610 | =head2 Unimplemented fallback schemes |
67d7b5ef | 611 | |
0ab8f81e | 612 | In the future, you will be able to use a code reference to a callback |
f2a2953c | 613 | function for the value of I<CHECK> but its API is still undecided. |
67d7b5ef JH |
614 | |
615 | =head1 Defining Encodings | |
616 | ||
617 | To define a new encoding, use: | |
618 | ||
619 | use Encode qw(define_alias); | |
620 | define_encoding($object, 'canonicalName' [, alias...]); | |
621 | ||
622 | I<canonicalName> will be associated with I<$object>. The object | |
0ab8f81e | 623 | should provide the interface described in L<Encode::Encoding>. |
67d7b5ef | 624 | If more than two arguments are provided then additional |
0ab8f81e | 625 | arguments are taken as aliases for I<$object>, as for C<define_alias>. |
67d7b5ef | 626 | |
f2a2953c JH |
627 | See L<Encode::Encoding> for more details. |
628 | ||
7e19fb92 JH |
629 | =head1 The UTF-8 flag |
630 | ||
631 | Before the introduction of utf8 support in perl, The C<eq> operator | |
632 | just compares internal data of the scalars. Now C<eq> means internal | |
633 | data equality AND I<the utf8 flag>. To explain why we made it so, I | |
634 | will quote page 402 of C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> | |
635 | ||
636 | =over 2 | |
637 | ||
638 | =item Goal #1: | |
639 | ||
640 | Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old | |
641 | byte-oriented data they used to work on. | |
642 | ||
643 | =item Goal #2: | |
644 | ||
645 | Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new | |
646 | character-oriented data when appropriate. | |
647 | ||
648 | =item Goal #3: | |
649 | ||
650 | Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode | |
651 | as in the old byte-oriented mode. | |
652 | ||
653 | =item Goal #4: | |
654 | ||
655 | Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a | |
656 | byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl. | |
657 | ||
658 | =back | |
659 | ||
660 | Back when C<Programming Perl, 3rd ed.> was written, not even Perl 5.6.0 | |
661 | was born and many features documented in the book remained | |
662 | unimplemented. Perl 5.8 hopefully correct this and the introduction | |
663 | of UTF-8 flag is one of them. You can think this perl notion of | |
664 | byte-oriented mode (utf8 flag off) and character-oriented mode (utf8 | |
665 | flag on). | |
666 | ||
667 | Here is how Encode takes care of the utf8 flag. | |
668 | ||
4bdf5738 | 669 | =over 2 |
7e19fb92 JH |
670 | |
671 | =item * | |
672 | ||
673 | When you encode, the resulting utf8 flag is always off. | |
674 | ||
675 | =item | |
676 | ||
677 | When you decode, the resuting utf8 flag is on unless you can | |
678 | unambiguously represent data. Here is the definition of | |
679 | dis-ambiguity. | |
680 | ||
681 | After C<$utf8 = decode('foo', $octet);>, | |
682 | ||
683 | When $octet is... The utf8 flag in $utf8 is | |
684 | --------------------------------------------- | |
685 | In ASCII only (or EBCDIC only) OFF | |
686 | In ISO-8859-1 ON | |
687 | In any other Encoding ON | |
688 | --------------------------------------------- | |
689 | ||
690 | As you see, there is one exception, In ASCII. That way you can assue | |
691 | Goal #1. And with Encode Goal #2 is assumed but you still have to be | |
692 | careful in such cases mentioned in B<CAVEAT> paragraphs. | |
693 | ||
694 | This utf8 flag is not visible in perl scripts, exactly for the same | |
695 | reason you cannot (or you I<don't have to>) see if a scalar contains a | |
696 | string, integer, or floating point number. But you can still peek | |
697 | and poke these if you will. See the section below. | |
698 | ||
699 | =back | |
700 | ||
701 | =head2 Messing with Perl's Internals | |
4411f3b6 | 702 | |
47bfe92f | 703 | The following API uses parts of Perl's internals in the current |
0ab8f81e | 704 | implementation. As such, they are efficient but may change. |
4411f3b6 | 705 | |
7e19fb92 | 706 | =over 2 |
4411f3b6 | 707 | |
a63c962f | 708 | =item is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]) |
4411f3b6 | 709 | |
0ab8f81e | 710 | [INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF-8 flag is turned on in the STRING. |
47bfe92f JH |
711 | If CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed |
712 | UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. | |
4411f3b6 | 713 | |
a63c962f | 714 | =item _utf8_on(STRING) |
4411f3b6 | 715 | |
0ab8f81e | 716 | [INTERNAL] Turns on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in STRING is |
4411f3b6 NIS |
717 | B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not use unless you |
718 | B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. Returns the previous | |
0ab8f81e JH |
719 | state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the return value as |
720 | indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is not a string. | |
4411f3b6 | 721 | |
a63c962f | 722 | =item _utf8_off(STRING) |
4411f3b6 | 723 | |
0ab8f81e JH |
724 | [INTERNAL] Turns off the UTF-8 flag in STRING. Do not use frivolously. |
725 | Returns the previous state of the UTF-8 flag (so please don't treat the | |
726 | return value as indicating success or failure), or C<undef> if STRING is | |
4411f3b6 NIS |
727 | not a string. |
728 | ||
729 | =back | |
730 | ||
731 | =head1 SEE ALSO | |
732 | ||
5d030b67 JH |
733 | L<Encode::Encoding>, |
734 | L<Encode::Supported>, | |
6d1c0808 | 735 | L<Encode::PerlIO>, |
5d030b67 | 736 | L<encoding>, |
6d1c0808 JH |
737 | L<perlebcdic>, |
738 | L<perlfunc/open>, | |
739 | L<perlunicode>, | |
740 | L<utf8>, | |
5d030b67 | 741 | the Perl Unicode Mailing List E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> |
4411f3b6 | 742 | |
85982a32 | 743 | =head1 MAINTAINER |
aae85ceb DK |
744 | |
745 | This project was originated by Nick Ing-Simmons and later maintained | |
7e19fb92 JH |
746 | by Dan Kogai E<lt>dankogai@dan.co.jpE<gt>. See AUTHORS for a full |
747 | list of people involved. For any questions, use | |
748 | E<lt>perl-unicode@perl.orgE<gt> so we can all share share. | |
aae85ceb | 749 | |
4411f3b6 | 750 | =cut |