HanDetect(3)

NAME
Lingua::ZH::HanDetect - Guess Chinese text's variant and encoding

VERSION
This document describes version 0.04 of Lingua::ZH::HanDetect, released June 27, 2003.

SYNOPSIS
    use Lingua::ZH::HanDetect;

    # $encoding is 'big5-hkscs', 'big5', 'gbk', 'euc-cn', 'utf8' or ''
    # $variant  is 'traditional', 'simplified' or ''
    my ($encoding, $variant) = han_detect($some_chinese_text);

DESCRIPTION
Lingua::ZH::HanDetect uses statistical measures to test a text string to see if it's in Traditional or Simplified Chinese, as well as which encoding it is in.

If the string does not contain Chinese characters, both the encoding and variant values will be set to the empty string.

This module is needed because the various encodings for Chinese text tend to occupy the similar byte ranges, rendering "Encode::Guess" ineffective.

SEE ALSO
Encode::HanDetect

AUTHORS
Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>