Encode...DMG::RE(3pm)

💖 Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG::RE — the perl(3pm) page, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, we're in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and today's main character is Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG::RE 💅

Heads up: this one is deprecated. Let that sink in. It's the version of Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG that got built out of regular expressions, and it's serving "I was iconic in my era, but we've moved on" energy 🥲

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG::RE — deprecated, no cap.

This is Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG, but implemented with regular expressions. It's giving legacy code that we still respect 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG::RE;

$string = decode 'arabtex-zdmg-re', $octets;
$octets = encode 'arabtex-zdmg-re', $string;    # not really implemented

Quick translation for the girls: you pull in the module, then you decode your octets into a string — and if you're trying to encode back… it's not really implemented, bestie 😭 the comment in the code literally says so, so don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕ — this is the deprecated method that does its thing using sequential regular-expression substitutions. Very "step by step, one substitution at a time, no shortcuts" of it.

It's limited in scope when it comes to the ArabTeX notation, and it's non-efficient in data processing — like, actually inefficient, I'm not being dramatic for once 💀

But! Here's the slay: it doesn't require the Encode::Mapper module. So if that's a thing you can't have, this little relic has your back 🌈

Fun origin story: originally, this method helped with data typesetting in TeX — yes, it's a TeX girlie. Then it got modified so it produces correct Perl's representation, engaging the Combining Diacritical Marks from the Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. That's the glow-up, periodt 👑

💜 EXPORT 💜

It exports exactly as if use Encode also showed up in the package. So like… surprise, you got Encode too 🎁 that's the vibe.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Encode::Arabic::ArabTeX::ZDMG — the non-RE sibling, go say hi 👋

iykyk.

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Otakar Smrz "<otakar-smrz users.sf.net>", <http://otakar-smrz.users.sf.net/>

the icon, the legend, the author 💖

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Otakar Smrz

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. so generous, so real 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie — every flag, every caveat, every copyright line, all intact, nothing skipped, we ate and left no crumbs 💅

This page is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-16 — shoutout to the Encode...DMG::RE(3pm) footer that carried us here 🌸 mwah, go decode something ✨🦋