MARC::Charset::Code(3)

NAME
MARC::Charset::Code - represents a MARC-8/UTF-8 mapping

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION
Each mapping from a MARC-8 value to a UTF-8 value is represented by a MARC::Charset::Code object in a MARC::Charset::Table.

METHODS

  new()
The constructor.

  name()
A descriptive name for the code point.

  marc()
A string representing the MARC-8 bytes codes.

  ucs()
A string representing the UCS code point in hex.

  charset_code()
The MARC-8 character set code.

  is_combining()
Returns true/false to tell if the character is a combining character.

  marc_left_half()
If the character is the right half of a "double diacritic", returns a hex string representing the MARC-8 value of the left half.

  marc_right_half()
If the character is the left half of a "double diacritic", returns a hex string representing the MARC-8 value of the right half.

  to_string()
A stringified version of the object suitable for pretty printing.

  char_value()
Returns the unicode character. Essentially just a helper around ucs().

  g0_marc_value()
The string representing the MARC-8 encoding for lookup.

  marc_value()
The string representing the MARC-8 encodingA for output.

  charset_name()
Returns the name of the character set, instead of the code.

  to_string()
Returns a stringified version of the object.

  marc8_hash_code()
Returns a hash code for this Code object for looking up the object using MARC8. First portion is the character set code and the second is the MARC-8 value.

  utf8_hash_code()
Returns a hash code for uniquely identifying a Code by it's UCS value.

  default_charset_group
Returns 'G0' or 'G1' indicating where the character is typicalling used in the MARC-8 environment.

  get_marc8_escape
Returns an escape sequence to move to the Code from another marc-8 character set.

  charset_value
Returns the charset value, not the hex sequence.