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Chapter 4: Encoding Methods
CJKV code conversion toolsTable 4-85.
Tool name Language URL
pkf
d
Japanese ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/IIJ/dist/utashiro/perl/
hcode Korean ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/hangul/code/hcode/
Network Chinese Filter.a.
Many additional Chinese code conversion tools are available at b. http://www.mandarintools.com/.
Network Kanji Filter.c.
A d. Perl version of nkf.
Contemporary Unix implementations oen include a built-in code conversion utility
called iconv
*
(it is based on a GNU library called libiconv
†
that can be used in other pro-
grams), which is also a standard Unix C library API. ere is a web implementation of
iconv available as well.
‡
Perl, Python, Java, and other programming languages now provide
their own code conversion facilities. I must point out that iconv and related utilities and
APIs are important because they provide the best overall support for Unicode.
e demand for standalone CJKV code conversion tools is decreasing due to the intro-
duction of built-in code conversion facilities in most CJKV-capable text editors, word
processors, and other text-intensive applications.
Chinese Code Conversion
e only frustrating problems that arise when dealing with Chinese code conversion are
when it is between the GB 2312-80 and Big Five (or CNS 11643-2007) character sets.
ere are three basic reasons for this:
GB 2312-80 contains only 6,763 hanzi, b ...