



Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings


use Encode qw/encode decode/; 


This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows.

Canonical   Alias             Description
                              Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong
MacChineseTrad                Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
cp950                         Code Page 950 
                              = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings



Due to size concerns, EUC-TW (Extended Unix Character), CCCII (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), BIG5PLUS (CMEX's Big5+) and BIG5EXT (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra China-based encodings.


Since the original big5 encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere (glibc and DOS-based systems uses big5 to mean big5-eten; Microsoft uses big5 to mean cp950), a conscious decision was made to alias big5 to big5-eten, which is the de facto superset of the original big5.

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


to find out why it is implemented that way.