NAME Char - Multibyte Character Support by Traditional Scripting SYNOPSIS # encoding: sjis use Char; print "Hello, world wide market!\n"; # "no Char;" not supported DESCRIPTION The Char software provides multibyte character-oriented Perl environment by traditional Perl scripting. - Character oriented regular expression - Character oriented runtime routines - Character oriented subroutines and - Byte oriented CORE::* functions - Byte oriented regular expression on /b modifier Information processing model beginning with Perl3 or this software. +--------------------------------------------+ | Text string as Digital octet string | | Digital octet string as Text string | +--------------------------------------------+ | Not UTF8 Flagged, No Mojibake | +--------------------------------------------+ In UNIX Everything is a File - In UNIX everything is a stream of bytes - In UNIX the filesystem is used as a universal name space Native Encoding Scripting - native encoding of file contents - native encoding of file name on filesystem - native encoding of command line - native encoding of environment variable - native encoding of API - native encoding of network packet - native encoding of database INSTALLATION Just copy Char.pm to your @INC directory. For example, to C:\Perl\site\lib on Microsoft Windows or other DOS-like systems. SUBROUTINES Old Days -- memories are always beautiful. Functions of Byte and SBCS -- Traditional Perl Script ------------- eval length substr ord reverse getc index rindex pos m// s/// split // tr/// qr// ------------- Today -- some memories are beautiful, others are not. (I don't say what are not;) *************** Byte Oriented Character Oriented * Casual * Traditional Functions vs Subroutines --> * Char Script * nearly Perl Script ------------- ---------------- *************** ----------- eval vs Char::eval --> * Char::eval * is not eval length vs Char::length --> * length * is length substr vs Char::substr --> * substr * is substr ord vs Char::ord --> * ord * is ord reverse vs Char::reverse --> * reverse * is reverse getc vs Char::getc --> * getc * is getc index vs Char::index --> * index * is index rindex vs Char::rindex --> * rindex * is rindex pos vs (nothing) --> * pos * is pos m//b vs m// --> * m// * is m// s///b vs s/// --> * s/// * is s/// split //b vs split // --> * split // * is split // tr///b vs tr/// --> * tr/// * is tr/// qr//b vs qr// --> * qr// * is qr// ------------- ---------------- *************** ----------- - Data typing by switching operators, as traditional Perl style - Text data by Character Oriented Subroutines - Binary data by Byte Oriented Functions - /b modifier was introduced via JPerl - Multibyte Character Support by Traditional Scripting, in almost all cases ENCODING FAMILY Arabic, Big5HKSCS, Big5Plus, Cyrillic, EUCJP, EUCTW, GB18030, GBK, Greek, HP15, Hebrew, INFORMIXV6ALS, JIS8, KOI8R, KOI8U, KPS9566, Latin1, Latin10, Latin2, Latin3, Latin4, Latin5, Latin6, Latin7, Latin8, Latin9, OldUTF8, Sjis, TIS620, UHC, USASCII, UTF2, Windows1252, and Windows1258 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS Apple Mac OS X, HP HP-UX, IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, and Other Systems SUPPORTED PERL VERSIONS perl version 5.005_03 to newest perl SEE ALSO http://search.cpan.org/~ina/ http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/I/IN/INA/