NAME Arabic - Native Encoding Support by Traditional Scripting SYNOPSIS # encoding: Arabic use Arabic; print "Hello, world wide market!\n"; # "no Arabic;" not supported DESCRIPTION The Arabic 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 Arabic::* 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 Arabic::eval length vs Arabic::length substr vs Arabic::substr ord vs Arabic::ord reverse vs Arabic::reverse getc vs Arabic::getc index vs Arabic::index rindex vs Arabic::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 **************** ----------- * Arabic::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/