Locale:...:IBM855(3)
💅 Locale::RecodeData::IBM855 — the perl manpage, but make it cute
okay so bestie, quick vibe check: this is the manual page for Locale::RecodeData::IBM855, part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation squad. It's giving "niche but iconic" and honestly we're obsessed. Let's get into it 🎀
✨ NAME ✨
Locale::RecodeData::IBM855 — literally just conversion routines for IBM855, that's the whole personality 🦋
🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸
This module is internal to libintl. Do not use directly!🚨 bestie, please read this one. It's internal to libintl and it says do not use directly — like, it's not being mysterious, it means it 💀
💜 DESCRIPTION 💜
This module is generated, okay? Like it wasn't hand-written with love by some dev, it got generated, and inside it there's the conversion tables and the routines for IBM855. That's it, that's the whole thing ✨
🌈 COMMENTS 🌈
the receipts!! these comments got extracted straight out of the original charmap, and they're kind of a moment:
version: 1.0
source: IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01, March 1990
alias CP855
alias 855so we're talking version 1.0, source IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01, March 1990 (yes, March 1990, vintage 👑), and the aliases CP855 and 855.
⚠️ but hold up — please note that aliases listed above are not necessarily valid! like, don't come for me if CP855 doesn't hit the way you expected. It's a heads up, not a promise 🙈
💫 CHARACTER TABLE 💫
okay so this next bit is the character table, and here's the tea:
- it's sorted in the same order as the original charmap — no reshuffling, respect the source fr fr
- all character codes are in hexadecimal 🔥
- and when you see
'ISO-10646', please read it as'ISO-10646-UCS4'— that's the assignment, don't get it twisted 💅
and that's part 1, bestie!! more incoming, don't go anywhere 🫶
ok so the table itself is the whole vibe here — three columns, <pink>Local</pink>, <purple>ISO-10646</purple> and a <cyan>Description</cyan>, and honestly the first half is just your classic ASCII greatest hits doing their thing 🎀 Every single row, no skipping, let's go:
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)
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)see how for the whole first half the <purple>ISO-10646</purple> column is literally just <cyan>000000</cyan> glued onto the <pink>Local</pink> value? iconic, no notes 💅
and then <hotpink>0x80</hotpink> hits and the whole thing pivots — welcome to the Cyrillic block bestie, this is where IBM855 earns its bag 🔥 the ISO-10646 values are all <cyan>000004xx</cyan> territory now, and mixed up in there is a whole little box-drawing situation plus a couple of quotation marks, a <yellow>CURRENCY SIGN</yellow>, some shades and some blocks. Obsessed with the fact that <peach>Serbocroatian</peach>, <peach>Ukrainian</peach> and <peach>Byelorussian</peach> get little parenthetical shoutouts in the descriptions 🫶 keep scrolling, it's all here:
80 | 00000452 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE (Serbocroatian)
81 | 00000402 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE (Serbocroatian)
82 | 00000453 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE
83 | 00000403 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GJE
84 | 00000451 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO
85 | 00000401 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IO
86 | 00000454 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
87 | 00000404 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
88 | 00000455 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE
89 | 00000405 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZE
8A | 00000456 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
8B | 00000406 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
8C | 00000457 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI (Ukrainian)
8D | 00000407 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI (Ukrainian)
8E | 00000458 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE
8F | 00000408 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE
90 | 00000459 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE
91 | 00000409 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LJE
92 | 0000045A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
93 | 0000040A | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE
94 | 0000045B | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE (Serbocroatian)
95 | 0000040B | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSHE
96 | 0000045C | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE
97 | 0000040C | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJE
98 | 0000045E | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U (Byelorussian)
99 | 0000040E | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U (Byelorussian)
9A | 0000045F | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE
9B | 0000040F | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE
9C | 0000044E | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU
9D | 0000042E | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU
9E | 0000044A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
9F | 0000042A | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN
A0 | 00000430 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
A1 | 00000410 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A
A2 | 00000431 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE
A3 | 00000411 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BE
A4 | 00000446 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSE
A5 | 00000426 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSE
A6 | 00000434 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
A7 | 00000414 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE
A8 | 00000435 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
A9 | 00000415 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE
AA | 00000444 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF
AB | 00000424 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EF
AC | 00000433 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE
AD | 00000413 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE
AE | 000000AB | LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
AF | 000000BB | RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
B0 | 00002591 | LIGHT SHADE
B1 | 00002592 | MEDIUM SHADE
B2 | 00002593 | DARK SHADE
B3 | 00002502 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL
B4 | 00002524 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND LEFT
B5 | 00000445 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA
B6 | 00000425 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA
B7 | 00000438 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I
B8 | 00000418 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I
B9 | 00002563 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND LEFT
BA | 00002551 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL
BB | 00002557 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND LEFT
BC | 0000255D | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND LEFT
BD | 00000439 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
BE | 00000419 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I
BF | 00002510 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT
C0 | 00002514 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT
C1 | 00002534 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND HORIZONTAL
C2 | 0000252C | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
C3 | 0000251C | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT
C4 | 00002500 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
C5 | 0000253C | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
C6 | 0000043A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA
C7 | 0000041A | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA
C8 | 0000255A | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND RIGHT
C9 | 00002554 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND RIGHT
CA | 00002569 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND HORIZONTAL
CB | 00002566 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
CC | 00002560 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND RIGHT
CD | 00002550 | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE HORIZONTAL
CE | 0000256C | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
CF | 000000A4 | CURRENCY SIGN
D0 | 0000043B | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL
D1 | 0000041B | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL
D2 | 0000043C | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM
D3 | 0000041C | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM
D4 | 0000043D | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN
D5 | 0000041D | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN
D6 | 0000043E | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O
D7 | 0000041E | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O
D8 | 0000043F | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE
D9 | 00002518 | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND LEFT
DA | 0000250C | BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT
DB | 00002588 | FULL BLOCK
DC | 00002584 | LOWER HALF BLOCK
DD | 0000041F | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE
DE | 0000044F | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA
DF | 00002580 | UPPER HALF BLOCK
E0 | 0000042F | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA
E1 | 00000440 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
E2 | 00000420 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ER
E3 | 00000441 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
E4 | 00000421 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES
E5 | 00000442 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TE
E6 | 00000422 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TEa few icons living rent free in this stretch: <mint>00002500</mint> (that's <pink>C4</pink>) being the plain light horizontal line, <mint>00002588</mint> (that's <pink>DB</pink>) being <hotpink>FULL BLOCK</hotpink>, and the half blocks at <pink>DC</pink> and <pink>DF</pink> — <lavender>LOWER HALF BLOCK</lavender> and <lavender>UPPER HALF BLOCK</lavender> respectively, in case you were wondering which way round they go 🙈 also the lowercase/capital pairs are sprinkled all over the place so read the description, not the vibe, when you're mapping these.
and we're not done yet — the table keeps going past <pink>E6</pink>, so like… buckle up for the next bit 🌸
...and we're back in the table baybee, no heading re-run needed, just vibes and hex 💅 here's the rest of the lineup, E7 straight through to FF:
E7 | 00000443 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U
E8 | 00000423 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U
E9 | 00000436 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE
EA | 00000416 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE
EB | 00000432 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE
EC | 00000412 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE
ED | 0000044C | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
EE | 0000042C | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN
EF | 00002116 | NUMERO SIGN
F0 | 000000AD | SOFT HYPHEN
F1 | 0000044B | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU
F2 | 0000042B | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU
F3 | 00000437 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZE
F4 | 00000417 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZE
F5 | 00000448 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA
F6 | 00000428 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA
F7 | 0000044D | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E
F8 | 0000042D | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER E
F9 | 00000449 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA
FA | 00000429 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA
FB | 00000447 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE
FC | 00000427 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE
FD | 000000A7 | SECTION SIGN
FE | 000025A0 | BLACK SQUARE
FF | 000000A0 | NO-BREAK SPACEand that's the whole mapping, the full <pink>0x00</pink> to <pink>0xFF</pink> glow-up, done and dusted 🎀 <mint>BLACK SQUARE</mint> at FE is lowkey serving main character energy, honestly 🖤 and FF being <lavender>NO-BREAK SPACE</lavender> is the quiet kid in the back of the class who never says anything, iconic behaviour 🌸
👑 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!
okay yes, that trailing <hotpink>details!code for details!</hotpink> is literally in the original and we are NOT touching it — typos are canon, we respect the lore 🙈💅
🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈
like, go read the whole squad next, bestie, they all ate:
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