Encode::HanExtra(3)

💖 Encode::HanExtra: Extra sets of Chinese encodings 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Encode::HanExtra(3) page — it’s literally the extra Chinese encodings manual, and we’re gonna get through it together. 🫶✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Encode::HanExtra — Extra sets of Chinese encodings

✨ VERSION ✨

This document describes version 0.23 of Encode::HanExtra, released November 10, 2007. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so here’s the vibe in code form, no cap:

use Encode;

# Traditional Chinese
$euc_tw = encode("euc-tw", $utf8);   # loads Encode::HanExtra implicitly
$utf8   = decode("euc-tw", $euc_tw); # ditto

# Simplified Chinese
$gb18030 = encode("gb18030", $utf8);    # loads Encode::HanExtra implicitly
$utf8    = decode("gb18030", $gb18030); # ditto

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so Perl 5.7.3 and later ships with an adequate set of Chinese encodings, including the commonly used CP950, CP936 (also known as GBK), Big5 (alias for Big5-Eten), Big5-HKSCS, EUC-CN, HZ, and ISO-IR-165. 💅

but bestie, the numbers of Chinese encodings are staggering, and a complete coverage will easily increase the size of the perl distribution by several megabytes — so this CPAN module tries to provide the rest of them. 😭

if you’re using Perl 5.8 or later, Encode::CN and Encode::TW will automatically load the extra encodings for you, so there’s no need to explicitly write use Encode::HanExtra if you are using one of them already. 🫶

🌈 ENCODINGS 🌈

this version includes the following encoding tables, bestie — canonical name, alias regex, description, all present and accounted for:

• big5-1984 — alias: /\b(tca-)?big5-?(19)?84$/i — TCA's original Big5-1984
• big5-2003 — alias: /\b(cmex-)?big5-?(20)?03$/i — Big5-2003 (national standard)
• big5ext — alias: /\b(cmex-)?big5-?e(xt)?$/i — CMEX's Big5e Extension
• big5plus — aliases: /\b(cmex-)?big5-?p(lus)?$/i and /\b(cmex-)?big5\+$/i — CMEX's Big5+ Extension
• cccii — alias: /\b(ccag-)?cccii$/i — Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange
• cns11643-1 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]1$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 1
• cns11643-2 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]2$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 2
• cns11643-3 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]3$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 3
• cns11643-4 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]4$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 4
• cns11643-5 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]5$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 5
• cns11643-6 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]6$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 6
• cns11643-7 — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]7$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane 7
• cns11643-f — alias: /\bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]f$/i — Taiwan's CNS map, plane F
• euc-tw — aliases: /\beuc.*tw$/i and /\btw.*euc$/i — EUC (Extended Unix Character)
• gb18030 — alias: /\bGB[-_ ]?18030$/i — GBK with Traditional Characters
• unisys — alias: /\bunisys$/i — Unisys Traditional Chinese
• unisys-sosi1 — Unisys SOSI1 transport encoding
• unisys-sosi2 — Unisys SOSI2 transport encoding

Detailed descriptions are as follows:

👑 BIG5-1984 👑

This is the original Big5 encoding made by TCA Taiwan.

💅 BIG5-2003 💅

This revised encoding is now national standard, as an appendix of CNS11643.

🧚 BIG5PLUS 🧚

This encoding, while not heavily used, is an attempt to bring all Taiwan's conflicting internal-use encodings together, and fit it as an extension to the widely-deployed Big5 range, by CMEX Taiwan.

🍓 BIG5EXT 🍓

The CMEX's second (and less ambitious) try at unifying the most commonly used characters not covered by Big5, while not polluting out of the 94x94 arragement like BIG5PLUS did.

💜 CCCII 💜

The earliest (and most sophisticated) Traditional Chinese encoding, with a three-byte raw character map, made in 1980 by the Chinese Character Analysis Group (CCAG), used mostly in library systems.

⭐ EUC-TW ⭐

The EUC transport version of CNS11643 (planes 1-7), the comprehensive character set used by the Taiwan government.

🌸 CNS11643-* 🌸

The raw character map extracted from the Unihan database, including the plane F which wasn't included in EUC-TW.

🔥 GB18030 🔥

An extension to GBK, this encoding lists most Han characters (both simplified and traditional), as well as some other encodings used by other peoples in China.

🫶 UNISYS 🫶

Unisys System's internal Chinese mapping.

💌 NOTES 💌

if you’re looking for ways to transliterate between Simplified and Traditional Chinese, please take a look at Encode::HanConvert. note that the direct mapping via Unicode is lossy, and usually doesn't work at all. 😭

please send me suggestions if you want to see more encoding added, such as BIG5-GCCS (superseded by BIG5-HKSCS). other suggestions are welcome, too. 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Encode
• Encode::HanConvert

🙏 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🙏

some of the maps here are generated from GNU libiconv's test files, with kind permission from Bruno Haible. 💖

map for BIG5PLUS is generated from the BIG52UCS.TXT file, courtesy of CMEX Taiwan (Chinese Microcomputer Extended Foundation, <http://www.cmex.org.tw/>). 🌸

map for BIG5-1984 is supplied by imacat. map for CCCII is supplied by the Koha Taiwan project. 👑

✍️ AUTHORS ✍️

Audrey Tang <audreyt@audreyt.org>

©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

Copyright 2002-2007 by Audrey Tang <audreyt@audreyt.org>.

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