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NAME
       Encode::HanExtra - Extra sets of Chinese encodings

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

SYNOPSIS
           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
       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".

       However, the numbers of Chinese encodings are staggering, and a
       complete coverage will easily increase the size of perl distribution by
       several megabytes; hence, this CPAN module tries to provide the rest of
       them.

       If you are 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:

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

       This software is released under the MIT license cited below.

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