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NAME

Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings

SYNOPSIS

    use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
    $big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
    $utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto

DESCRIPTION

This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows.

  Canonical   Alias             Description
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  big5-eten   /\bbig-?5$/i      Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions)
              /\bbig5-?et(en)?$/i
              /\btca-?big5$/i
  big5-hkscs  /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i
              /\bhk(scs)?-?big5$/i
                                Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong
  MacChineseTrad                Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
  cp950                         Code Page 950 
                                = Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings
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