NAME

String::Multibyte::Big5 - internally used by String::Multibyte for Big-5

SYNOPSIS

    use String::Multibyte;

    $big5 = String::Multibyte->new('Big5');
    $big5_length = $big5->length($big5_string);

DESCRIPTION

"String::Multibyte::Big5" is used for manipulation of strings in Big-5 family encodings.

Byte range of single-byte characters: "0x00..0x7F".

Leading byte range of double-byte characters: "0x81..0xFE".

Trailing byte range of double-byte characters: "0x40..0x7E" and "0xA1..0xFE".

Character order (invalid code points are excluded): "0x00..0x7F", "0x8140..0xFEFE".

CAVEAT

"0x81..0xA0" are treated as legal leading bytes and "0x80..0xA0" as illegal trailing bytes, in consideration of EUDC of Microsoft's CP950 and HKSCS of Hong Kong Government.

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