NAME

Lingua::JA::MacJapanese - transcoding between Mac OS Japanese and Unicode

SYNOPSIS

(1) using function names exported by default:

use Lingua::JA::MacJapanese;
$wchar = decodeMacJapanese($octet);
$octet = encodeMacJapanese($wchar);

(2) using function names exported on request:

use Lingua::JA::MacJapanese qw(decode encode);
$wchar = decode($octet);
$octet = encode($wchar);

(3) using function names fully qualified:

 use Lingua::JA::MacJapanese ();
 $wchar = Lingua::JA::MacJapanese::decode($octet);
 $octet = Lingua::JA::MacJapanese::encode($wchar);

# $wchar : a string in Perl's Unicode format
# $octet : a string in Mac OS Japanese

DESCRIPTION

This module provides decoding from/encoding to Mac OS Japanese encoding (denoted MacJapanese hereafter).

In order to ensure roundtrip mapping, MacJapanese encoding has some characters with mapping from a single MacJapanese character to a sequence of Unicode characters and vice versa. Such characters includes 0x85AB (MacJapanese) from/to 0xF862+0x0058+0x0049+0x0049+0x0049 (Unicode) for "Roman numeral thirteen".

This module provides functions to transcode between MacJapanese encoding and Unicode, without information loss for every MacJapanese character.

Shift-JIS Gaiji (user defined characters) [0xF040 to 0xFCFC (rows 95 to 120)] are mapped to Unicode's PUA [0xE000 to 0xE98B] (total 2444 characters).

Functions

$wchar = decode($octet)

$wchar = decode($handler, $octet)

$wchar = decodeMacJapanese($octet)

$wchar = decodeMacJapanese($handler, $octet)

Converts MacJapanese to Unicode.

decodeMacJapanese() is an alias for decode() exported by default.

If the $handler is not specified, any MacJapanese character that is not mapped to Unicode is deleted; if the $handler is a code reference, a string returned from that coderef is inserted there. if the $handler is a scalar reference, a string (a PV) in that reference (the referent) is inserted there.

The 1st argument for the $handler coderef is a string of the unmapped MacJapanese character (e.g. "\xEF\xFC").

$octet = encode($wchar)

$octet = encode($handler, $wchar)

$octet = encodeMacJapanese($wchar)

$octet = encodeMacJapanese($handler, $wchar)

Converts Unicode to MacJapanese.

encodeMacJapanese() is an alias for encode() exported by default.

If the $handler is not specified, any Unicode character that is not mapped to MacJapanese is deleted; if the $handler is a code reference, a string returned from that coderef is inserted there. if the $handler is a scalar reference, a string (a PV) in that reference (the referent) is inserted there.

The 1st argument for the $handler coderef is the Unicode code point (unsigned integer) of the unmapped character.

E.g.

sub hexNCR { sprintf("&#x%x;", shift) } # hexadecimal NCR
sub decNCR { sprintf("&#%d;" , shift) } # decimal NCR

print encodeMacJapanese("ABC\x{100}\x{10000}");
# "ABC"

print encodeMacJapanese(\"", "ABC\x{100}\x{10000}");
# "ABC"

print encodeMacJapanese(\"?", "ABC\x{100}\x{10000}");
# "ABC??"

print encodeMacJapanese(\&hexNCR, "ABC\x{100}\x{10000}");
# "ABCĀ𐀀"

print encodeMacJapanese(\&decNCR, "ABC\x{100}\x{10000}");
# "ABCĀ𐀀"

CAVEAT

Sorry, the author is not working on a Mac OS. Please let him know if you find something wrong.

AUTHOR

SADAHIRO Tomoyuki  SADAHIRO@cpan.org

http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/perl/

Copyright(C) 2003-2003, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki. Japan. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Map (external version) from Mac OS Japanese encoding to Unicode 2.1 through Unicode 3.2 (version: b4,c1 2002-Dec-19)

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/JAPANESE.TXT