Encode::HP Perl

NAME

Encode::HP - Extra sets of HP encodings using Unicode Mapping .ucm files

VERSION

This document describes version 0.03 of Encode::HP, released September 15, 2013.

SYNOPSIS

use Encode;
use Encode::HP;
 
# Greek8
$greek8 = encode("hp-greek8", $utf8);
$utf8 = decode("hp-greek8", $greek8);

DESCRIPTION

Perl 5.7.3 and later ship with with hp-roman8 encoding, however, there are additional HP encodings that are unsupported but may be encountered; hence, this CPAN module tries to provide the rest of them.

ENCODINGS

This version includes the following encoding tables:

Canonical	Alias
hp-greek8	/\bgreek8$/i
hp-roman9	/\br(oman)?9$/i
hp-thai8	/\bthai8$/i
hp-turkish8	/\bturkish8$/i

This version also adds the following alises:

Canonical	Alias
hp-roman8	/\br(oman)?8$/i

UNSUPPORTED ENCODINGS

The following are unsupported due to the lack of mapping data.

'8'  - arabic8, hebrew8, and kana8 
'15' - japanese15, korean15, and roi15

If you have this information or access to an HP-UX system, please consider providing this data. Information on how to generate this data from an HP-UX system is available here:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5464.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Maps for hp-greek8, hp-roman9, hp-thai8, and hp-turkish8 are generated from glibc charmaps.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Any reports of problems, comments or suggestions are most welcome.

Please report these on Github

AUTHORS

John Wang johncwang@gmail.com

COPYRIGHT

This software is released under the MIT license cited below.

LICENSE

Encode::HP is available under an MIT-style license. See LICENSE for details.

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