Locale:...P_ROMAN8(3)
💅 Locale:...P_ROMAN8(3) — User Contributed Perl Documentation
okay so bestie, buckle up, because this is Locale::RecodeData::HP_ROMAN8, page Locale:...P_ROMAN8(3) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. it's giving very "deep internals, do not touch" energy, and honestly? that's exactly what it is. 🫶
✨ NAME ✨
Locale::RecodeData::HP_ROMAN8 — literally just conversion routines for HP_ROMAN8. that's the whole vibe check. 🎀
✨ SYNOPSIS ✨
⚠️ bestie read this twice: this module is internal to libintl. Do not use directly! like, it said what it said. 🙈
✨ DESCRIPTION ✨
so this module is generated — not hand-written, no cap — and it contains the conversion tables and routines for HP-ROMAN8. that's it, that's the description. short and iconic. ⭐
✨ COMMENTS ✨
these comments were extracted straight out of the original charmap, copied here verbatim because we do not gatekeep provenance:
version: 1.0
source: LaserJet IIP Printer User's Manual,
HP part no 33471-90901, Hewlet-Packard, June 1989.
alias ROMAN8
alias R8heads up though: please note that the aliases listed above are not necessarily valid! 😭 like they're in the charmap, sure, but that doesn't mean they're legit to use. don't come for me, that's just what the page says. 💀
✨ CHARACTER TABLE ✨
the table that follows is sorted in the same order as the original charmap — no reshuffling, no "fixing", we keep it exactly how it was born. 🌸
also, all character codes are in hexadecimal. hex girlies rise. 🔥
and one little naming note so nobody gets confused at the function: please read 'ISO-10646' as 'ISO-10646-UCS4'. it's giving "same thing, longer name", iykyk. 🦋
…and the actual table is coming right up in the next part, so don't go anywhere 💜
So here's the table itself, bestie — the whole vibe check of ROMAN8 laid out in one place 💅 Every row is <local byte> → <ISO-10646 code point> → the actual name of the character. Settle in, hydrate, this is a long one.
First up: the low control characters, 00 through 1F. Absolute bedrock, the OGs, the ones that predate everything and still run the world 🌈
Local | ISO-10646 | Description
-------+-----------+-------------------------------------------------
00 | 00000000 | NULL (NUL)
01 | 00000001 | START OF HEADING (SOH)
02 | 00000002 | START OF TEXT (STX)
03 | 00000003 | END OF TEXT (ETX)
04 | 00000004 | END OF TRANSMISSION (EOT)
05 | 00000005 | ENQUIRY (ENQ)
06 | 00000006 | ACKNOWLEDGE (ACK)
07 | 00000007 | BELL (BEL)
08 | 00000008 | BACKSPACE (BS)
09 | 00000009 | CHARACTER TABULATION (HT)
0A | 0000000A | LINE FEED (LF)
0B | 0000000B | LINE TABULATION (VT)
0C | 0000000C | FORM FEED (FF)
0D | 0000000D | CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
0E | 0000000E | SHIFT OUT (SO)
0F | 0000000F | SHIFT IN (SI)
10 | 00000010 | DATALINK ESCAPE (DLE)
11 | 00000011 | DEVICE CONTROL ONE (DC1)
12 | 00000012 | DEVICE CONTROL TWO (DC2)
13 | 00000013 | DEVICE CONTROL THREE (DC3)
14 | 00000014 | DEVICE CONTROL FOUR (DC4)
15 | 00000015 | NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE (NAK)
16 | 00000016 | SYNCHRONOUS IDLE (SYN)
17 | 00000017 | END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK (ETB)
18 | 00000018 | CANCEL (CAN)
19 | 00000019 | END OF MEDIUM (EM)
1A | 0000001A | SUBSTITUTE (SUB)
1B | 0000001B | ESCAPE (ESC)
1C | 0000001C | FILE SEPARATOR (IS4)
1D | 0000001D | GROUP SEPARATOR (IS3)
1E | 0000001E | RECORD SEPARATOR (IS2)
1F | 0000001F | UNIT SEPARATOR (IS1)Ok notice how <cyan>1C</cyan> through <cyan>1F</cyan> are labelled FILE SEPARATOR (IS4), GROUP SEPARATOR (IS3), RECORD SEPARATOR (IS2), UNIT SEPARATOR (IS1) — the numbering goes backwards while the bytes go forwards. Not me being chaotic, that's just what the table says 🙈
Then <pink>20</pink> through <pink>7F</pink> — the printable party zone plus <cyan>DEL</cyan> at the end, and note that these map to themselves in ISO-10646, straight down the line ✨
20 | 00000020 | SPACE
21 | 00000021 | EXCLAMATION MARK
22 | 00000022 | QUOTATION MARK
23 | 00000023 | NUMBER SIGN
24 | 00000024 | DOLLAR SIGN
25 | 00000025 | PERCENT SIGN
26 | 00000026 | AMPERSAND
27 | 00000027 | APOSTROPHE
28 | 00000028 | LEFT PARENTHESIS
29 | 00000029 | RIGHT PARENTHESIS
2A | 0000002A | ASTERISK
2B | 0000002B | PLUS SIGN
2C | 0000002C | COMMA
2D | 0000002D | HYPHEN-MINUS
2E | 0000002E | FULL STOP
2F | 0000002F | SOLIDUS
30 | 00000030 | DIGIT ZERO
31 | 00000031 | DIGIT ONE
32 | 00000032 | DIGIT TWO
33 | 00000033 | DIGIT THREE
34 | 00000034 | DIGIT FOUR
35 | 00000035 | DIGIT FIVE
36 | 00000036 | DIGIT SIX
37 | 00000037 | DIGIT SEVEN
38 | 00000038 | DIGIT EIGHT
39 | 00000039 | DIGIT NINE
3A | 0000003A | COLON
3B | 0000003B | SEMICOLON
3C | 0000003C | LESS-THAN SIGN
3D | 0000003D | EQUALS SIGN
3E | 0000003E | GREATER-THAN SIGN
3F | 0000003F | QUESTION MARK
40 | 00000040 | COMMERCIAL AT
41 | 00000041 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
42 | 00000042 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
43 | 00000043 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
44 | 00000044 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
45 | 00000045 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
46 | 00000046 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
47 | 00000047 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
48 | 00000048 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
49 | 00000049 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
4A | 0000004A | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
4B | 0000004B | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
4C | 0000004C | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
4D | 0000004D | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
4E | 0000004E | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
4F | 0000004F | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
50 | 00000050 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
51 | 00000051 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
52 | 00000052 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
53 | 00000053 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
54 | 00000054 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
55 | 00000055 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
56 | 00000056 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
57 | 00000057 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
58 | 00000058 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
59 | 00000059 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
5A | 0000005A | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
5B | 0000005B | LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
5C | 0000005C | REVERSE SOLIDUS
5D | 0000005D | RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
5E | 0000005E | CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
5F | 0000005F | LOW LINE
60 | 00000060 | GRAVE ACCENT
61 | 00000061 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A
62 | 00000062 | LATIN SMALL LETTER B
63 | 00000063 | LATIN SMALL LETTER C
64 | 00000064 | LATIN SMALL LETTER D
65 | 00000065 | LATIN SMALL LETTER E
66 | 00000066 | LATIN SMALL LETTER F
67 | 00000067 | LATIN SMALL LETTER G
68 | 00000068 | LATIN SMALL LETTER H
69 | 00000069 | LATIN SMALL LETTER I
6A | 0000006A | LATIN SMALL LETTER J
6B | 0000006B | LATIN SMALL LETTER K
6C | 0000006C | LATIN SMALL LETTER L
6D | 0000006D | LATIN SMALL LETTER M
6E | 0000006E | LATIN SMALL LETTER N
6F | 0000006F | LATIN SMALL LETTER O
70 | 00000070 | LATIN SMALL LETTER P
71 | 00000071 | LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
72 | 00000072 | LATIN SMALL LETTER R
73 | 00000073 | LATIN SMALL LETTER S
74 | 00000074 | LATIN SMALL LETTER T
75 | 00000075 | LATIN SMALL LETTER U
76 | 00000076 | LATIN SMALL LETTER V
77 | 00000077 | LATIN SMALL LETTER W
78 | 00000078 | LATIN SMALL LETTER X
79 | 00000079 | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
7A | 0000007A | LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
7B | 0000007B | LEFT CURLY BRACKET
7C | 0000007C | VERTICAL LINE
7D | 0000007D | RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
7E | 0000007E | TILDE
7F | 0000007F | DELETE (DEL)2D being HYPHEN-MINUS and 2E being FULL STOP — the hyphen/period combo that lives in every filename you've ever typed. Respect the elders 🫶
Now the spicy zone: <hotpink>80</hotpink> to <hotpink>9F</hotpink>. These are still control-ish characters, and yeah, they do have ISO-10646 codepoints that match up exactly (00000080–0000009F), with acronyms that go absolutely feral 🔥
80 | 00000080 | PADDING CHARACTER (PAD)
81 | 00000081 | HIGH OCTET PRESET (HOP)
82 | 00000082 | BREAK PERMITTED HERE (BPH)
83 | 00000083 | NO BREAK HERE (NBH)
84 | 00000084 | INDEX (IND)
85 | 00000085 | NEXT LINE (NEL)
86 | 00000086 | START OF SELECTED AREA (SSA)
87 | 00000087 | END OF SELECTED AREA (ESA)
88 | 00000088 | CHARACTER TABULATION SET (HTS)
89 | 00000089 | CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION (HTJ)
8A | 0000008A | LINE TABULATION SET (VTS)
8B | 0000008B | PARTIAL LINE FORWARD (PLD)
8C | 0000008C | PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD (PLU)
8D | 0000008D | REVERSE LINE FEED (RI)
8E | 0000008E | SINGLE-SHIFT TWO (SS2)
8F | 0000008F | SINGLE-SHIFT THREE (SS3)
90 | 00000090 | DEVICE CONTROL STRING (DCS)
91 | 00000091 | PRIVATE USE ONE (PU1)
92 | 00000092 | PRIVATE USE TWO (PU2)
93 | 00000093 | SET TRANSMIT STATE (STS)
94 | 00000094 | CANCEL CHARACTER (CCH)
95 | 00000095 | MESSAGE WAITING (MW)
96 | 00000096 | START OF GUARDED AREA (SPA)
97 | 00000097 | END OF GUARDED AREA (EPA)
98 | 00000098 | START OF STRING (SOS)
99 | 00000099 | SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER (SGCI)
9A | 0000009A | SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER (SCI)
9B | 0000009B | CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER (CSI)
9C | 0000009C | STRING TERMINATOR (ST)
9D | 0000009D | OPERATING SYSTEM COMMAND (OSC)
9E | 0000009E | PRIVACY MESSAGE (PM)
9F | 0000009F | APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND (APC)8C is PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD (PLU) — iconic acronym/name mismatch, and 99 is the very extra SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER (SGCI). The 90s control set really said "let's have twenty-eight different introducers" and honestly? Slay 💀
And now <rainbow>the main character</rainbow> of the whole table: <pink>A0</pink> through <pink>E6</pink>, where ROMAN8 starts mapping local bytes to codepoints that are not equal to themselves anymore. This is the part everyone actually opens the page for 🌸
A0 | 000000A0 | NO-BREAK SPACE
A1 | 000000C0 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
A2 | 000000C2 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
A3 | 000000C8 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
A4 | 000000CA | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
A5 | 000000CB | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
A6 | 000000CE | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
A7 | 000000CF | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
A8 | 000000B4 | ACUTE ACCENT
A9 | 000002CB | MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT (Mandarin Chinese fourth tone)
AA | 000002C6 | MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
AB | 000000A8 | DIAERESIS
AC | 000002DC | SMALL TILDE
AD | 000000D9 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
AE | 000000DB | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
AF | 000020A4 | LIRA SIGN
B0 | 000000AF | MACRON
B1 | 000000DD | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
B2 | 000000FD | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
B3 | 000000B0 | DEGREE SIGN
B4 | 000000C7 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
B5 | 000000E7 | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
B6 | 000000D1 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
B7 | 000000F1 | LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
B8 | 000000A1 | INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
B9 | 000000BF | INVERTED QUESTION MARK
BA | 000000A4 | CURRENCY SIGN
BB | 000000A3 | POUND SIGN
BC | 000000A5 | YEN SIGN
BD | 000000A7 | SECTION SIGN
BE | 00000192 | LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
BF | 000000A2 | CENT SIGN
C0 | 000000E2 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
C1 | 000000EA | LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
C2 | 000000F4 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
C3 | 000000FB | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
C4 | 000000E1 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
C5 | 000000E9 | LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
C6 | 000000F3 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
C7 | 000000FA | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
C8 | 000000E0 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
C9 | 000000E8 | LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
CA | 000000F2 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
CB | 000000F9 | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
CC | 000000E4 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
CD | 000000EB | LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
CE | 000000F6 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
CF | 000000FC | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
D0 | 000000C5 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
D1 | 000000EE | LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
D2 | 000000D8 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
D3 | 000000C6 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
D4 | 000000E5 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
D5 | 000000ED | LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
D6 | 000000F8 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
D7 | 000000E6 | LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
D8 | 000000C4 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
D9 | 000000EC | LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
DA | 000000D6 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
DB | 000000DC | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
DC | 000000C9 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
DD | 000000EF | LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
DE | 000000DF | LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (German)
DF | 000000D4 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
E0 | 000000C1 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
E1 | 000000C3 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
E2 | 000000E3 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
E3 | 000000D0 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (Icelandic)
E4 | 000000F0 | LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH (Icelandic)
E5 | 000000CD | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
E6 | 000000CC | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVELittle things I'm obsessed with here, ngl:
<mint>A8</mint>is a bareACUTE ACCENTand<mint>AB</mint>is a bareDIAERESIS— standalone diacritics, living their best separate lives, mapping to000000B4and000000A8respectively 🦋<mint>A9</mint>gets a whole parenthetical:MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT (Mandarin Chinese fourth tone)at000002CB, and<mint>AA</mint>/<mint>AC</mint>are000002C6/000002DC— the only three rows in this chunk that jump up into the000002xxrange 💅<mint>AF</mint>isLIRA SIGNat000020A4, the other row that leaps out of the000000xxneighbourhood 👑<mint>BE</mint>isLATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOKat00000192— the weirdo, the outlier, the one that doesn't belong to any tidy block, and honestly? main character energy 🎀<mint>DE</mint>isLATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (German)— the ß, the icon, the one German letter that refuses to be replaced byssquietly 🍓<mint>E3</mint>/<mint>E4</mint>areLATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (Icelandic)andLATIN SMALL LETTER ETH (Icelandic)— ð and ð, the Icelandic delegation showed up 🇮🇸
And notice the ordering drama in C0–CF: it goes circumflex (E2, EA, F4, FB), then acute (E1, E9, F3, FA), then grave (E0, E8, F2, F9), then diaeresis (E4, EB, F6, FC) — four vowels, four accents, beautifully grouped 🧚 Not alphabetical, not by codepoint, just vibes.
That's E6, and the table is still going — there are more local bytes to get through, so keep scrolling bestie, we're nowhere near done yet 💖
E7 | 000000D3 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
E8 | 000000D2 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
E9 | 000000D5 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
EA | 000000F5 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
EB | 00000160 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
EC | 00000161 | LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
ED | 000000DA | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
EE | 00000178 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
EF | 000000FF | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
F0 | 000000DE | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN (Icelandic)
F1 | 000000FE | LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN (Icelandic)
F2 | 000000B7 | MIDDLE DOT
F3 | 000000B5 | MICRO SIGN
F4 | 000000B6 | PILCROW SIGN
F5 | 000000BE | VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
F6 | 00002014 | EM DASH
F7 | 000000BC | VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
F8 | 000000BD | VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
F9 | 000000AA | FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
FA | 000000BA | MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
FB | 000000AB | LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
FC | 000025A0 | BLACK SQUARE
FD | 000000BB | RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
FE | 000000B1 | PLUS-MINUS SIGNthat’s the whole table, bestie — every last byte accounted for 💅✨
💖 AUTHOR 💖
- Copyright (C) 2002-2017 Guido Flohr
<http://www.guido-flohr.net/>(<mailto:guido.flohr@cantanea.com>), all rights reserved. See the source code for details!code for details!— yes, that’s the exact wording, duplicate and all 🙈
🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋
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