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Encode::JP

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3pm)
Updated: 2001-09-21
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NAME

Encode::JP - Japanese Encodings

SYNOPSIS

    use Encode qw/encode decode/;     $euc_jp = encode("euc-jp", $utf8);   # loads Encode::JP implicitly    $utf8   = decode("euc-jp", $euc_jp); # ditto

ABSTRACT

This module implements Japanese charset encodings. Encodingssupported are as follows.

  Canonical   Alias             Description  --------------------------------------------------------------------  euc-jp      /\beuc.*jp$/i     EUC (Extended Unix Character)              /\bjp.*euc/i                 /\bujis$/i  shiftjis    /\bshift.*jis$/i  Shift JIS (aka MS Kanji)              /\bsjis$/i  7bit-jis    /\bjis$/i         7bit JIS  iso-2022-jp                   ISO-2022-JP                  [RFC1468]                                = 7bit JIS with all Halfwidth Kana                                   converted to Fullwidth  iso-2022-jp-1                 ISO-2022-JP-1                [RFC2237]                                = ISO-2022-JP with JIS X 0212-1990                                  support.  See below  MacJapanese                   Shift JIS + Apple vendor mappings  cp932       /\bwindows-31j$/i Code Page 932                                = Shift JIS + MS/IBM vendor mappings  jis0201-raw                   JIS0201, raw format  jis0208-raw                   JIS0201, raw format  jis0212-raw                   JIS0201, raw format  --------------------------------------------------------------------

DESCRIPTION

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

Note on ISO-2022-JP(-1)?

ISO-2022-JP-1 (RFC2237) is a superset of ISO-2022-JP (RFC1468) whichadds support for JIS X 0212-1990. That means you can use the samecode to decode to utf8 but not vice versa.

  $utf8 = decode('iso-2022-jp-1', $stream);

and

  $utf8 = decode('iso-2022-jp',   $stream);

yield the same result but

  $with_0212 = encode('iso-2022-jp-1', $utf8);

is now different from

  $without_0212 = encode('iso-2022-jp', $utf8 );

In the latter case, characters that map to 0212 are first convertedto U+3013 (0xA2AE in EUC-JP; a white square also known as 'Tofu' or'geta mark') then fed to the decoding engine. U+FFFD is not used,in order to preserve text layout as much as possible.

BUGS

The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, eventhough this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See

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

to find out why it is implemented that way.

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