NAME

Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings

SYNOPSIS

    use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
    $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
    $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto

DESCRIPTION

This module implements Taiwan-based Chinese charset encodings. Encodings supported are as follows.

  Canonical   Alias             Description
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  big5        /\bbig-?5$/i      The original Big5 encoding
  big5-hkscs  /\bbig5-hk(scs)?$/i
                                Big5 plus Cantonese characters in 
                                Hong Kong
  MacChineseSimp                Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
  cp950                         Code Page 950 
                                = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings
  --------------------------------------------------------------------

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

NOTES

Due to size concerns, EUC-TW (Extended Unix Character), CCCII (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange) and BIG5PLUS (CMEX's Big5+) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra China-based encodings.

BUGS

The CNS11643 encoding files are not complete. For common CNS11643 manipulation, please use EUC-TW in Encode::HanExtra, which contains plane 1-7.

ASCII part (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though it conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See

http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en

to find why it is implemented that way.

SEE ALSO

Encode