| 1 |
# $Id: encoding.pm,v 2.1 2004/10/19 04:55:01 dankogai Exp $ |
| 2 |
package encoding; |
| 3 |
our $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 2.1 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; |
| 4 |
|
| 5 |
use Encode; |
| 6 |
use strict; |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
sub DEBUG () { 0 } |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
BEGIN { |
| 11 |
if (ord("A") == 193) { |
| 12 |
require Carp; |
| 13 |
Carp::croak("encoding: pragma does not support EBCDIC platforms"); |
| 14 |
} |
| 15 |
} |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
our $HAS_PERLIO = 0; |
| 18 |
eval { require PerlIO::encoding }; |
| 19 |
unless ($@){ |
| 20 |
$HAS_PERLIO = (PerlIO::encoding->VERSION >= 0.02); |
| 21 |
} |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
sub _exception{ |
| 24 |
my $name = shift; |
| 25 |
$] > 5.008 and return 0; # 5.8.1 or higher then no |
| 26 |
my %utfs = map {$_=>1} |
| 27 |
qw(utf8 UCS-2BE UCS-2LE UTF-16 UTF-16BE UTF-16LE |
| 28 |
UTF-32 UTF-32BE UTF-32LE); |
| 29 |
$utfs{$name} or return 0; # UTFs or no |
| 30 |
require Config; Config->import(); our %Config; |
| 31 |
return $Config{perl_patchlevel} ? 0 : 1 # maintperl then no |
| 32 |
} |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
sub in_locale { $^H & ($locale::hint_bits || 0)} |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
sub _get_locale_encoding { |
| 37 |
my $locale_encoding; |
| 38 |
|
| 39 |
# I18N::Langinfo isn't available everywhere |
| 40 |
eval { |
| 41 |
require I18N::Langinfo; |
| 42 |
I18N::Langinfo->import(qw(langinfo CODESET)); |
| 43 |
$locale_encoding = langinfo(CODESET()); |
| 44 |
}; |
| 45 |
|
| 46 |
my $country_language; |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
no warnings 'uninitialized'; |
| 49 |
|
| 50 |
if (not $locale_encoding && in_locale()) { |
| 51 |
if ($ENV{LC_ALL} =~ /^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$/) { |
| 52 |
($country_language, $locale_encoding) = ($1, $2); |
| 53 |
} elsif ($ENV{LANG} =~ /^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$/) { |
| 54 |
($country_language, $locale_encoding) = ($1, $2); |
| 55 |
} |
| 56 |
# LANGUAGE affects only LC_MESSAGES only on glibc |
| 57 |
} elsif (not $locale_encoding) { |
| 58 |
if ($ENV{LC_ALL} =~ /\butf-?8\b/i || |
| 59 |
$ENV{LANG} =~ /\butf-?8\b/i) { |
| 60 |
$locale_encoding = 'utf8'; |
| 61 |
} |
| 62 |
# Could do more heuristics based on the country and language |
| 63 |
# parts of LC_ALL and LANG (the parts before the dot (if any)), |
| 64 |
# since we have Locale::Country and Locale::Language available. |
| 65 |
# TODO: get a database of Language -> Encoding mappings |
| 66 |
# (the Estonian database at http://www.eki.ee/letter/ |
| 67 |
# would be excellent!) --jhi |
| 68 |
} |
| 69 |
if (defined $locale_encoding && |
| 70 |
lc($locale_encoding) eq 'euc' && |
| 71 |
defined $country_language) { |
| 72 |
if ($country_language =~ /^ja_JP|japan(?:ese)?$/i) { |
| 73 |
$locale_encoding = 'euc-jp'; |
| 74 |
} elsif ($country_language =~ /^ko_KR|korean?$/i) { |
| 75 |
$locale_encoding = 'euc-kr'; |
| 76 |
} elsif ($country_language =~ /^zh_CN|chin(?:a|ese)?$/i) { |
| 77 |
$locale_encoding = 'euc-cn'; |
| 78 |
} elsif ($country_language =~ /^zh_TW|taiwan(?:ese)?$/i) { |
| 79 |
$locale_encoding = 'euc-tw'; |
| 80 |
} else { |
| 81 |
require Carp; |
| 82 |
Carp::croak("encoding: Locale encoding '$locale_encoding' too ambiguous"); |
| 83 |
} |
| 84 |
} |
| 85 |
|
| 86 |
return $locale_encoding; |
| 87 |
} |
| 88 |
|
| 89 |
sub import { |
| 90 |
my $class = shift; |
| 91 |
my $name = shift; |
| 92 |
if ($name eq ':_get_locale_encoding') { # used by lib/open.pm |
| 93 |
my $caller = caller(); |
| 94 |
{ |
| 95 |
no strict 'refs'; |
| 96 |
*{"${caller}::_get_locale_encoding"} = \&_get_locale_encoding; |
| 97 |
} |
| 98 |
return; |
| 99 |
} |
| 100 |
$name = _get_locale_encoding() if $name eq ':locale'; |
| 101 |
my %arg = @_; |
| 102 |
$name = $ENV{PERL_ENCODING} unless defined $name; |
| 103 |
my $enc = find_encoding($name); |
| 104 |
unless (defined $enc) { |
| 105 |
require Carp; |
| 106 |
Carp::croak("encoding: Unknown encoding '$name'"); |
| 107 |
} |
| 108 |
$name = $enc->name; # canonize |
| 109 |
unless ($arg{Filter}) { |
| 110 |
DEBUG and warn "_exception($name) = ", _exception($name); |
| 111 |
_exception($name) or ${^ENCODING} = $enc; |
| 112 |
$HAS_PERLIO or return 1; |
| 113 |
}else{ |
| 114 |
defined(${^ENCODING}) and undef ${^ENCODING}; |
| 115 |
# implicitly 'use utf8' |
| 116 |
require utf8; # to fetch $utf8::hint_bits; |
| 117 |
$^H |= $utf8::hint_bits; |
| 118 |
eval { |
| 119 |
require Filter::Util::Call ; |
| 120 |
Filter::Util::Call->import ; |
| 121 |
filter_add(sub{ |
| 122 |
my $status = filter_read(); |
| 123 |
if ($status > 0){ |
| 124 |
$_ = $enc->decode($_, 1); |
| 125 |
DEBUG and warn $_; |
| 126 |
} |
| 127 |
$status ; |
| 128 |
}); |
| 129 |
}; |
| 130 |
$@ eq '' and DEBUG and warn "Filter installed"; |
| 131 |
} |
| 132 |
defined ${^UNICODE} and ${^UNICODE} != 0 and return 1; |
| 133 |
for my $h (qw(STDIN STDOUT)){ |
| 134 |
if ($arg{$h}){ |
| 135 |
unless (defined find_encoding($arg{$h})) { |
| 136 |
require Carp; |
| 137 |
Carp::croak("encoding: Unknown encoding for $h, '$arg{$h}'"); |
| 138 |
} |
| 139 |
eval { binmode($h, ":raw :encoding($arg{$h})") }; |
| 140 |
}else{ |
| 141 |
unless (exists $arg{$h}){ |
| 142 |
eval { |
| 143 |
no warnings 'uninitialized'; |
| 144 |
binmode($h, ":raw :encoding($name)"); |
| 145 |
}; |
| 146 |
} |
| 147 |
} |
| 148 |
if ($@){ |
| 149 |
require Carp; |
| 150 |
Carp::croak($@); |
| 151 |
} |
| 152 |
} |
| 153 |
return 1; # I doubt if we need it, though |
| 154 |
} |
| 155 |
|
| 156 |
sub unimport{ |
| 157 |
no warnings; |
| 158 |
undef ${^ENCODING}; |
| 159 |
if ($HAS_PERLIO){ |
| 160 |
binmode(STDIN, ":raw"); |
| 161 |
binmode(STDOUT, ":raw"); |
| 162 |
}else{ |
| 163 |
binmode(STDIN); |
| 164 |
binmode(STDOUT); |
| 165 |
} |
| 166 |
if ($INC{"Filter/Util/Call.pm"}){ |
| 167 |
eval { filter_del() }; |
| 168 |
} |
| 169 |
} |
| 170 |
|
| 171 |
1; |
| 172 |
__END__ |
| 173 |
|
| 174 |
=pod |
| 175 |
|
| 176 |
=head1 NAME |
| 177 |
|
| 178 |
encoding - allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8 |
| 179 |
|
| 180 |
=head1 SYNOPSIS |
| 181 |
|
| 182 |
use encoding "greek"; # Perl like Greek to you? |
| 183 |
use encoding "euc-jp"; # Jperl! |
| 184 |
|
| 185 |
# or you can even do this if your shell supports your native encoding |
| 186 |
|
| 187 |
perl -Mencoding=latin2 -e '...' # Feeling centrally European? |
| 188 |
perl -Mencoding=euc-kr -e '...' # Or Korean? |
| 189 |
|
| 190 |
# more control |
| 191 |
|
| 192 |
# A simple euc-cn => utf-8 converter |
| 193 |
use encoding "euc-cn", STDOUT => "utf8"; while(<>){print}; |
| 194 |
|
| 195 |
# "no encoding;" supported (but not scoped!) |
| 196 |
no encoding; |
| 197 |
|
| 198 |
# an alternate way, Filter |
| 199 |
use encoding "euc-jp", Filter=>1; |
| 200 |
# now you can use kanji identifiers -- in euc-jp! |
| 201 |
|
| 202 |
# switch on locale - |
| 203 |
# note that this probably means that unless you have a complete control |
| 204 |
# over the environments the application is ever going to be run, you should |
| 205 |
# NOT use the feature of encoding pragma allowing you to write your script |
| 206 |
# in any recognized encoding because changing locale settings will wreck |
| 207 |
# the script; you can of course still use the other features of the pragma. |
| 208 |
use encoding ':locale'; |
| 209 |
|
| 210 |
=head1 ABSTRACT |
| 211 |
|
| 212 |
Let's start with a bit of history: Perl 5.6.0 introduced Unicode |
| 213 |
support. You could apply C<substr()> and regexes even to complex CJK |
| 214 |
characters -- so long as the script was written in UTF-8. But back |
| 215 |
then, text editors that supported UTF-8 were still rare and many users |
| 216 |
instead chose to write scripts in legacy encodings, giving up a whole |
| 217 |
new feature of Perl 5.6. |
| 218 |
|
| 219 |
Rewind to the future: starting from perl 5.8.0 with the B<encoding> |
| 220 |
pragma, you can write your script in any encoding you like (so long |
| 221 |
as the C<Encode> module supports it) and still enjoy Unicode support. |
| 222 |
This pragma achieves that by doing the following: |
| 223 |
|
| 224 |
=over |
| 225 |
|
| 226 |
=item * |
| 227 |
|
| 228 |
Internally converts all literals (C<q//,qq//,qr//,qw///, qx//>) from |
| 229 |
the encoding specified to utf8. In Perl 5.8.1 and later, literals in |
| 230 |
C<tr///> and C<DATA> pseudo-filehandle are also converted. |
| 231 |
|
| 232 |
=item * |
| 233 |
|
| 234 |
Changing PerlIO layers of C<STDIN> and C<STDOUT> to the encoding |
| 235 |
specified. |
| 236 |
|
| 237 |
=back |
| 238 |
|
| 239 |
=head2 Literal Conversions |
| 240 |
|
| 241 |
You can write code in EUC-JP as follows: |
| 242 |
|
| 243 |
my $Rakuda = "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC"; # Camel in Kanji |
| 244 |
#<-char-><-char-> # 4 octets |
| 245 |
s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/; |
| 246 |
|
| 247 |
And with C<use encoding "euc-jp"> in effect, it is the same thing as |
| 248 |
the code in UTF-8: |
| 249 |
|
| 250 |
my $Rakuda = "\x{99F1}\x{99DD}"; # two Unicode Characters |
| 251 |
s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/; |
| 252 |
|
| 253 |
=head2 PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)> |
| 254 |
|
| 255 |
The B<encoding> pragma also modifies the filehandle layers of |
| 256 |
STDIN and STDOUT to the specified encoding. Therefore, |
| 257 |
|
| 258 |
use encoding "euc-jp"; |
| 259 |
my $message = "Camel is the symbol of perl.\n"; |
| 260 |
my $Rakuda = "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC"; # Camel in Kanji |
| 261 |
$message =~ s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/; |
| 262 |
print $message; |
| 263 |
|
| 264 |
Will print "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC is the symbol of perl.\n", |
| 265 |
not "\x{99F1}\x{99DD} is the symbol of perl.\n". |
| 266 |
|
| 267 |
You can override this by giving extra arguments; see below. |
| 268 |
|
| 269 |
=head2 Implicit upgrading for byte strings |
| 270 |
|
| 271 |
By default, if strings operating under byte semantics and strings |
| 272 |
with Unicode character data are concatenated, the new string will |
| 273 |
be created by decoding the byte strings as I<ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)>. |
| 274 |
|
| 275 |
The B<encoding> pragma changes this to use the specified encoding |
| 276 |
instead. For example: |
| 277 |
|
| 278 |
use encoding 'utf8'; |
| 279 |
my $string = chr(20000); # a Unicode string |
| 280 |
utf8::encode($string); # now it's a UTF-8 encoded byte string |
| 281 |
# concatenate with another Unicode string |
| 282 |
print length($string . chr(20000)); |
| 283 |
|
| 284 |
Will print C<2>, because C<$string> is upgraded as UTF-8. Without |
| 285 |
C<use encoding 'utf8';>, it will print C<4> instead, since C<$string> |
| 286 |
is three octets when interpreted as Latin-1. |
| 287 |
|
| 288 |
=head1 FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1 |
| 289 |
|
| 290 |
Some of the features offered by this pragma requires perl 5.8.1. Most |
| 291 |
of these are done by Inaba Hiroto. Any other features and changes |
| 292 |
are good for 5.8.0. |
| 293 |
|
| 294 |
=over |
| 295 |
|
| 296 |
=item "NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings |
| 297 |
|
| 298 |
Because perl needs to parse script before applying this pragma, such |
| 299 |
encodings as Shift_JIS and Big-5 that may contain '\' (BACKSLASH; |
| 300 |
\x5c) in the second byte fails because the second byte may |
| 301 |
accidentally escape the quoting character that follows. Perl 5.8.1 |
| 302 |
or later fixes this problem. |
| 303 |
|
| 304 |
=item tr// |
| 305 |
|
| 306 |
C<tr//> was overlooked by Perl 5 porters when they released perl 5.8.0 |
| 307 |
See the section below for details. |
| 308 |
|
| 309 |
=item DATA pseudo-filehandle |
| 310 |
|
| 311 |
Another feature that was overlooked was C<DATA>. |
| 312 |
|
| 313 |
=back |
| 314 |
|
| 315 |
=head1 USAGE |
| 316 |
|
| 317 |
=over 4 |
| 318 |
|
| 319 |
=item use encoding [I<ENCNAME>] ; |
| 320 |
|
| 321 |
Sets the script encoding to I<ENCNAME>. And unless ${^UNICODE} |
| 322 |
exists and non-zero, PerlIO layers of STDIN and STDOUT are set to |
| 323 |
":encoding(I<ENCNAME>)". |
| 324 |
|
| 325 |
Note that STDERR WILL NOT be changed. |
| 326 |
|
| 327 |
Also note that non-STD file handles remain unaffected. Use C<use |
| 328 |
open> or C<binmode> to change layers of those. |
| 329 |
|
| 330 |
If no encoding is specified, the environment variable L<PERL_ENCODING> |
| 331 |
is consulted. If no encoding can be found, the error C<Unknown encoding |
| 332 |
'I<ENCNAME>'> will be thrown. |
| 333 |
|
| 334 |
=item use encoding I<ENCNAME> [ STDIN =E<gt> I<ENCNAME_IN> ...] ; |
| 335 |
|
| 336 |
You can also individually set encodings of STDIN and STDOUT via the |
| 337 |
C<< STDIN => I<ENCNAME> >> form. In this case, you cannot omit the |
| 338 |
first I<ENCNAME>. C<< STDIN => undef >> turns the IO transcoding |
| 339 |
completely off. |
| 340 |
|
| 341 |
When ${^UNICODE} exists and non-zero, these options will completely |
| 342 |
ignored. ${^UNICODE} is a variable introduced in perl 5.8.1. See |
| 343 |
L<perlrun> see L<perlvar/"${^UNICODE}"> and L<perlrun/"-C"> for |
| 344 |
details (perl 5.8.1 and later). |
| 345 |
|
| 346 |
=item use encoding I<ENCNAME> Filter=E<gt>1; |
| 347 |
|
| 348 |
This turns the encoding pragma into a source filter. While the |
| 349 |
default approach just decodes interpolated literals (in qq() and |
| 350 |
qr()), this will apply a source filter to the entire source code. See |
| 351 |
L</"The Filter Option"> below for details. |
| 352 |
|
| 353 |
=item no encoding; |
| 354 |
|
| 355 |
Unsets the script encoding. The layers of STDIN, STDOUT are |
| 356 |
reset to ":raw" (the default unprocessed raw stream of bytes). |
| 357 |
|
| 358 |
=back |
| 359 |
|
| 360 |
=head1 The Filter Option |
| 361 |
|
| 362 |
The magic of C<use encoding> is not applied to the names of |
| 363 |
identifiers. In order to make C<${"\x{4eba}"}++> ($human++, where human |
| 364 |
is a single Han ideograph) work, you still need to write your script |
| 365 |
in UTF-8 -- or use a source filter. That's what 'Filter=>1' does. |
| 366 |
|
| 367 |
What does this mean? Your source code behaves as if it is written in |
| 368 |
UTF-8 with 'use utf8' in effect. So even if your editor only supports |
| 369 |
Shift_JIS, for example, you can still try examples in Chapter 15 of |
| 370 |
C<Programming Perl, 3rd Ed.>. For instance, you can use UTF-8 |
| 371 |
identifiers. |
| 372 |
|
| 373 |
This option is significantly slower and (as of this writing) non-ASCII |
| 374 |
identifiers are not very stable WITHOUT this option and with the |
| 375 |
source code written in UTF-8. |
| 376 |
|
| 377 |
=head2 Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87 |
| 378 |
|
| 379 |
=over |
| 380 |
|
| 381 |
=item * |
| 382 |
|
| 383 |
The Filter option now sets STDIN and STDOUT like non-filter options. |
| 384 |
And C<< STDIN=>I<ENCODING> >> and C<< STDOUT=>I<ENCODING> >> work like |
| 385 |
non-filter version. |
| 386 |
|
| 387 |
=item * |
| 388 |
|
| 389 |
C<use utf8> is implicitly declared so you no longer have to C<use |
| 390 |
utf8> to C<${"\x{4eba}"}++>. |
| 391 |
|
| 392 |
=back |
| 393 |
|
| 394 |
=head1 CAVEATS |
| 395 |
|
| 396 |
=head2 NOT SCOPED |
| 397 |
|
| 398 |
The pragma is a per script, not a per block lexical. Only the last |
| 399 |
C<use encoding> or C<no encoding> matters, and it affects |
| 400 |
B<the whole script>. However, the <no encoding> pragma is supported and |
| 401 |
B<use encoding> can appear as many times as you want in a given script. |
| 402 |
The multiple use of this pragma is discouraged. |
| 403 |
|
| 404 |
By the same reason, the use this pragma inside modules is also |
| 405 |
discouraged (though not as strongly discouranged as the case above. |
| 406 |
See below). |
| 407 |
|
| 408 |
If you still have to write a module with this pragma, be very careful |
| 409 |
of the load order. See the codes below; |
| 410 |
|
| 411 |
# called module |
| 412 |
package Module_IN_BAR; |
| 413 |
use encoding "bar"; |
| 414 |
# stuff in "bar" encoding here |
| 415 |
1; |
| 416 |
|
| 417 |
# caller script |
| 418 |
use encoding "foo" |
| 419 |
use Module_IN_BAR; |
| 420 |
# surprise! use encoding "bar" is in effect. |
| 421 |
|
| 422 |
The best way to avoid this oddity is to use this pragma RIGHT AFTER |
| 423 |
other modules are loaded. i.e. |
| 424 |
|
| 425 |
use Module_IN_BAR; |
| 426 |
use encoding "foo"; |
| 427 |
|
| 428 |
=head2 DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS |
| 429 |
|
| 430 |
Notice that only literals (string or regular expression) having only |
| 431 |
legacy code points are affected: if you mix data like this |
| 432 |
|
| 433 |
\xDF\x{100} |
| 434 |
|
| 435 |
the data is assumed to be in (Latin 1 and) Unicode, not in your native |
| 436 |
encoding. In other words, this will match in "greek": |
| 437 |
|
| 438 |
"\xDF" =~ /\x{3af}/ |
| 439 |
|
| 440 |
but this will not |
| 441 |
|
| 442 |
"\xDF\x{100}" =~ /\x{3af}\x{100}/ |
| 443 |
|
| 444 |
since the C<\xDF> (ISO 8859-7 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS) on |
| 445 |
the left will B<not> be upgraded to C<\x{3af}> (Unicode GREEK SMALL |
| 446 |
LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS) because of the C<\x{100}> on the left. You |
| 447 |
should not be mixing your legacy data and Unicode in the same string. |
| 448 |
|
| 449 |
This pragma also affects encoding of the 0x80..0xFF code point range: |
| 450 |
normally characters in that range are left as eight-bit bytes (unless |
| 451 |
they are combined with characters with code points 0x100 or larger, |
| 452 |
in which case all characters need to become UTF-8 encoded), but if |
| 453 |
the C<encoding> pragma is present, even the 0x80..0xFF range always |
| 454 |
gets UTF-8 encoded. |
| 455 |
|
| 456 |
After all, the best thing about this pragma is that you don't have to |
| 457 |
resort to \x{....} just to spell your name in a native encoding. |
| 458 |
So feel free to put your strings in your encoding in quotes and |
| 459 |
regexes. |
| 460 |
|
| 461 |
=head2 tr/// with ranges |
| 462 |
|
| 463 |
The B<encoding> pragma works by decoding string literals in |
| 464 |
C<q//,qq//,qr//,qw///, qx//> and so forth. In perl 5.8.0, this |
| 465 |
does not apply to C<tr///>. Therefore, |
| 466 |
|
| 467 |
use encoding 'euc-jp'; |
| 468 |
#.... |
| 469 |
$kana =~ tr/\xA4\xA1-\xA4\xF3/\xA5\xA1-\xA5\xF3/; |
| 470 |
# -------- -------- -------- -------- |
| 471 |
|
| 472 |
Does not work as |
| 473 |
|
| 474 |
$kana =~ tr/\x{3041}-\x{3093}/\x{30a1}-\x{30f3}/; |
| 475 |
|
| 476 |
=over |
| 477 |
|
| 478 |
=item Legend of characters above |
| 479 |
|
| 480 |
utf8 euc-jp charnames::viacode() |
| 481 |
----------------------------------------- |
| 482 |
\x{3041} \xA4\xA1 HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL A |
| 483 |
\x{3093} \xA4\xF3 HIRAGANA LETTER N |
| 484 |
\x{30a1} \xA5\xA1 KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A |
| 485 |
\x{30f3} \xA5\xF3 KATAKANA LETTER N |
| 486 |
|
| 487 |
=back |
| 488 |
|
| 489 |
This counterintuitive behavior has been fixed in perl 5.8.1. |
| 490 |
|
| 491 |
=head3 workaround to tr///; |
| 492 |
|
| 493 |
In perl 5.8.0, you can work around as follows; |
| 494 |
|
| 495 |
use encoding 'euc-jp'; |
| 496 |
# .... |
| 497 |
eval qq{ \$kana =~ tr/\xA4\xA1-\xA4\xF3/\xA5\xA1-\xA5\xF3/ }; |
| 498 |
|
| 499 |
Note the C<tr//> expression is surrounded by C<qq{}>. The idea behind |
| 500 |
is the same as classic idiom that makes C<tr///> 'interpolate'. |
| 501 |
|
| 502 |
tr/$from/$to/; # wrong! |
| 503 |
eval qq{ tr/$from/$to/ }; # workaround. |
| 504 |
|
| 505 |
Nevertheless, in case of B<encoding> pragma even C<q//> is affected so |
| 506 |
C<tr///> not being decoded was obviously against the will of Perl5 |
| 507 |
Porters so it has been fixed in Perl 5.8.1 or later. |
| 508 |
|
| 509 |
=head1 EXAMPLE - Greekperl |
| 510 |
|
| 511 |
use encoding "iso 8859-7"; |
| 512 |
|
| 513 |
# \xDF in ISO 8859-7 (Greek) is \x{3af} in Unicode. |
| 514 |
|
| 515 |
$a = "\xDF"; |
| 516 |
$b = "\x{100}"; |
| 517 |
|
| 518 |
printf "%#x\n", ord($a); # will print 0x3af, not 0xdf |
| 519 |
|
| 520 |
$c = $a . $b; |
| 521 |
|
| 522 |
# $c will be "\x{3af}\x{100}", not "\x{df}\x{100}". |
| 523 |
|
| 524 |
# chr() is affected, and ... |
| 525 |
|
| 526 |
print "mega\n" if ord(chr(0xdf)) == 0x3af; |
| 527 |
|
| 528 |
# ... ord() is affected by the encoding pragma ... |
| 529 |
|
| 530 |
print "tera\n" if ord(pack("C", 0xdf)) == 0x3af; |
| 531 |
|
| 532 |
# ... as are eq and cmp ... |
| 533 |
|
| 534 |
print "peta\n" if "\x{3af}" eq pack("C", 0xdf); |
| 535 |
print "exa\n" if "\x{3af}" cmp pack("C", 0xdf) == 0; |
| 536 |
|
| 537 |
# ... but pack/unpack C are not affected, in case you still |
| 538 |
# want to go back to your native encoding |
| 539 |
|
| 540 |
print "zetta\n" if unpack("C", (pack("C", 0xdf))) == 0xdf; |
| 541 |
|
| 542 |
=head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS |
| 543 |
|
| 544 |
=over |
| 545 |
|
| 546 |
=item literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes |
| 547 |
|
| 548 |
For native multibyte encodings (either fixed or variable length), |
| 549 |
the current implementation of the regular expressions may introduce |
| 550 |
recoding errors for regular expression literals longer than 127 bytes. |
| 551 |
|
| 552 |
=item EBCDIC |
| 553 |
|
| 554 |
The encoding pragma is not supported on EBCDIC platforms. |
| 555 |
(Porters who are willing and able to remove this limitation are |
| 556 |
welcome.) |
| 557 |
|
| 558 |
=item format |
| 559 |
|
| 560 |
This pragma doesn't work well with format because PerlIO does not |
| 561 |
get along very well with it. When format contains non-ascii |
| 562 |
characters it prints funny or gets "wide character warnings". |
| 563 |
To understand it, try the code below. |
| 564 |
|
| 565 |
# Save this one in utf8 |
| 566 |
# replace *non-ascii* with a non-ascii string |
| 567 |
my $camel; |
| 568 |
format STDOUT = |
| 569 |
*non-ascii*@>>>>>>> |
| 570 |
$camel |
| 571 |
. |
| 572 |
$camel = "*non-ascii*"; |
| 573 |
binmode(STDOUT=>':encoding(utf8)'); # bang! |
| 574 |
write; # funny |
| 575 |
print $camel, "\n"; # fine |
| 576 |
|
| 577 |
Without binmode this happens to work but without binmode, print() |
| 578 |
fails instead of write(). |
| 579 |
|
| 580 |
At any rate, the very use of format is questionable when it comes to |
| 581 |
unicode characters since you have to consider such things as character |
| 582 |
width (i.e. double-width for ideographs) and directions (i.e. BIDI for |
| 583 |
Arabic and Hebrew). |
| 584 |
|
| 585 |
=back |
| 586 |
|
| 587 |
=head2 The Logic of :locale |
| 588 |
|
| 589 |
The logic of C<:locale> is as follows: |
| 590 |
|
| 591 |
=over 4 |
| 592 |
|
| 593 |
=item 1. |
| 594 |
|
| 595 |
If the platform supports the langinfo(CODESET) interface, the codeset |
| 596 |
returned is used as the default encoding for the open pragma. |
| 597 |
|
| 598 |
=item 2. |
| 599 |
|
| 600 |
If 1. didn't work but we are under the locale pragma, the environment |
| 601 |
variables LC_ALL and LANG (in that order) are matched for encodings |
| 602 |
(the part after C<.>, if any), and if any found, that is used |
| 603 |
as the default encoding for the open pragma. |
| 604 |
|
| 605 |
=item 3. |
| 606 |
|
| 607 |
If 1. and 2. didn't work, the environment variables LC_ALL and LANG |
| 608 |
(in that order) are matched for anything looking like UTF-8, and if |
| 609 |
any found, C<:utf8> is used as the default encoding for the open |
| 610 |
pragma. |
| 611 |
|
| 612 |
=back |
| 613 |
|
| 614 |
If your locale environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG) |
| 615 |
contain the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8' (case-insensitive matching), |
| 616 |
the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and of |
| 617 |
B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8. |
| 618 |
|
| 619 |
=head1 HISTORY |
| 620 |
|
| 621 |
This pragma first appeared in Perl 5.8.0. For features that require |
| 622 |
5.8.1 and better, see above. |
| 623 |
|
| 624 |
The C<:locale> subpragma was implemented in 2.01, or Perl 5.8.6. |
| 625 |
|
| 626 |
=head1 SEE ALSO |
| 627 |
|
| 628 |
L<perlunicode>, L<Encode>, L<open>, L<Filter::Util::Call>, |
| 629 |
|
| 630 |
Ch. 15 of C<Programming Perl (3rd Edition)> |
| 631 |
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant; |
| 632 |
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN 0-596-00027-8 |
| 633 |
|
| 634 |
=cut |