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TITLE

Encode::TECkit - TECkit Encode interface

DESCRIPTION

This module interfaces with the TECkit processor to provide a Perl interface for data conversion.

TECkit is a binary encoding converter designed to handle complex encoding conversions requiring multiple passes over the data and contextual data conversion. See the module Encode::UTR22 for a module that handles a textual language for this kind of conversion. That module contains a compiler that takes an extended UTR22 description and creates a binary control file for TECkit. Equally, TECkit contains its own language and compiler, but these are not written in Perl.

There are two forms of Encode::TECkit (this is probably a bug). The first is a Perl object which passes methods along to the Encode::TECkit XS code. The difference is that the Perl object usually contains two binary Encode::TECkit objects. So, don't go calling XS methods on the pure Perl object (as returned by new).

Notice that at this stage the interface is not there to use TECkit is a pure Unicode normalizer or encoding form converter. Use Unicode::Normalize and (un)pack for that.

METHODS

Encode::TECkit->new($fname, %opts)

This creates a new TECkit object. The usual form of the method call is to pass in the filename of the TECkit binary control file to use. In addition, the option: -form may be used to specify which normal form to create when converting to UTF-8. This can take the values: nfc or nfd.

It is possible to get an XS Encode::TECkit object using new(). To get this, use the following required options:

-raw

Set this to a non-zero value to get a pure XS object

-forward

if set, then mapping of this object is in the direction of forwards as specified in the TECkit binary file. By default this is assumed to by bytes to Unicode. if cleared, then the direction is the opposite (Unicode to bytes).

-style

This specifies what form the data should be converted to. The only sensible values are: 1 for bytes and 2 for UTF-8.

$enc->decode($str, $check)

Converts $str from bytes to Unicode. $check does nothing in this implementation.

$enc->encode($str, $check)

Converts $str from Unicode to bytes. $check does nothing in this implementation and has no meaning (ignore it).

($xs_enc, $hr) = Encode::TECkit::new_conv($fname, $forward, $style)

XS function to create a new Encode::TECkit object. $fname specifies the filename of the TECkit binary control file to use. $forward indicates which direction to use the control file. $style is the encoding form of the output when using this mapping. The only sensible values are: 1 - bytes, 2 - UTF-8, and 0x102 for UTF-8 NFC and 0x202 for UTF-8 NFD.

$hr is a result code which is 0 for success and non-zero for failure. See TECkit_Engine.h in the source for details of the meaning of this value

$res = $xs_enc->convert($str, $style, $isComplete)

XS function that converts a string according to the way the converter was setup. $str is the string to convert. $style indicates the resulting encoding format: 1 - bytes, 2 - UTF-8. $style is used to set the appropriate bits in the string to indicate the encoding to Perl. $isComplete indicates whether the string is a complete string and so no further flushing is needed. It also acts as a return value (and so must be a valid lvalue). The return value is the $hr for the conversion.

$res = $xs_enc->flush($style, $hr)

XS function that finishes off a conversion with the given $style value. Notice that $hr is merely a place holder for the returned $hr, so must be a valid lvalue. It's value has no meaning.