NAME
Char - Native Encoding Support by Traditional Scripting
SYNOPSIS
# encoding: sjis
use Char;
print "Hello, world wide market!\n";
# "no Char;" not supported
DESCRIPTION
The Char software provides character-oriented Perl environment on the
native encoding, by traditional scripting that we know.
- Character oriented regular expression and runtime routines
- Character oriented Char::* subroutines
and
- Byte oriented CORE::* built-in 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
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
Functions vs. Subroutines
------------- ----------------
eval vs. Char::eval
length vs. Char::length
substr vs. Char::substr
ord vs. Char::ord
reverse vs. Char::reverse
getc vs. Char::getc
index vs. Char::index
rindex vs. Char::rindex
pos vs. (nothing)
m//b vs. m//
s///b vs. s///
split //b vs. split //
tr///b vs. tr///
qr//b vs. qr//
------------- ----------------
****************
* Casual * Traditional
* Scripting * nearly Perl Script
**************** -----------
* Char::eval * is not eval
* length * is length
* substr * is substr
* ord * is ord
* reverse * is reverse
* getc * is getc
* index * is index
* rindex * is rindex
* pos * is pos
* m// * is m//
* s/// * is s///
* split // * is split //
* tr/// * is tr///
* qr// * is qr//
**************** -----------
- Data typing by switching operators, like 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/
