NAME

Lingua::KO::MacKorean - transcoding between Mac OS Korean and Unicode

SYNOPSIS

(1) using function names exported by default:

use Lingua::KO::MacKorean;
$wchar = decodeMacKorean($octet);
$octet = encodeMacKorean($wchar);

(2) using function names exported on request:

use Lingua::KO::MacKorean qw(decode encode);
$wchar = decode($octet);
$octet = encode($wchar);

(3) using function names fully qualified:

 use Lingua::KO::MacKorean ();
 $wchar = Lingua::KO::MacKorean::decode($octet);
 $octet = Lingua::KO::MacKorean::encode($wchar);

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

DESCRIPTION

This module provides decoding from/encoding to Mac OS Korean encoding (denoted MacKorean hereafter).

In order to ensure roundtrip mapping, MacKorean encoding has some characters with mapping from a single MacKorean character to a sequence of Unicode characters and vice versa. Such characters includes 0xAAF9 (MacKorean) from/to 0xF862+0x0028+0x0032+0x0031+0x0029 (Unicode) for "Parenthesized number twenty-one".

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

Functions

$wchar = decode($octet)

$wchar = decode($handler, $octet)

$wchar = decodeMacKorean($octet)

$wchar = decodeMacKorean($handler, $octet)

Converts MacKorean to Unicode.

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

If the $handler is not specified, any MacKorean 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 MacKorean character (e.g. "\xC9\xA1").

$octet = encode($wchar)

$octet = encode($handler, $wchar)

$octet = encodeMacKorean($wchar)

$octet = encodeMacKorean($handler, $wchar)

Converts Unicode to MacKorean.

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

If the $handler is not specified, any Unicode character that is not mapped to MacKorean 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 encodeMacKorean("ABC\x{100}\x{10000}");
# "ABC"

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

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

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

print encodeMacKorean(\&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 Korean encoding to Unicode 3.2 (version: b3,c1 2002-Dec-19)

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