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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2013-03-08 12:08:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2013-03-08 12:12:31 -0700 |
| commit | d5924ca660e2fe6f9a41f9be79d82972ea3c3616 (patch) | |
| tree | 51176336faf33153b69e080f5c5864d045789688 | |
| parent | 3b2d14782fbfa2afbd16c5ee36653a25675e6fc5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d5924ca660e2fe6f9a41f9be79d82972ea3c3616.tar.gz | |
perlebcdic.pod: Document 2 fcns; nits
The functions to convert code points from/to native were not previously
documented. This also fixes some heading issues.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlebcdic.pod | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlebcdic.pod b/pod/perlebcdic.pod index ecf94d14f3..2256fb1ef6 100644 --- a/pod/perlebcdic.pod +++ b/pod/perlebcdic.pod @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ identification numbers (CCSID numbers) or code page numbers. Perl can be compiled on platforms that run any of three commonly used EBCDIC character sets, listed below. -=head2 The 13 variant characters +=head3 The 13 variant characters Among IBM EBCDIC character code sets there are 13 characters that are often mapped to different integer values. Those characters @@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ one of the three Perl knows about, Perl will either fail to compile, or mistakenly and silently choose one of the three. They are: -=head2 0037 +=over + +=item B<0037> Character code set ID 0037 is a mapping of the ASCII plus Latin-1 characters (i.e. ISO 8859-1) to an EBCDIC set. 0037 is used @@ -100,18 +102,20 @@ in North American English locales on the OS/400 operating system that runs on AS/400 computers. CCSID 0037 differs from ISO 8859-1 in 237 places, in other words they agree on only 19 code point values. -=head2 1047 +=item B<1047> Character code set ID 1047 is also a mapping of the ASCII plus Latin-1 characters (i.e. ISO 8859-1) to an EBCDIC set. 1047 is used under Unix System Services for OS/390 or z/OS, and OpenEdition for VM/ESA. CCSID 1047 differs from CCSID 0037 in eight places. -=head2 POSIX-BC +=item B<POSIX-BC> The EBCDIC code page in use on Siemens' BS2000 system is distinct from 1047 and 0037. It is identified below as the POSIX-BC set. +=back + =head2 Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points In Unicode terminology a I<code point> is the number assigned to a @@ -683,6 +687,11 @@ code page you can use the Config module like so: =head1 CONVERSIONS +=head2 C<utf8::unicode_to_native()> and C<utf8::native_to_unicode()> + +These functions take an input numeric code point in one encoding and +return what its equivalent value is in the other. + =head2 tr/// In order to convert a string of characters from one character set to |