NAME

Encode::CN - China-based Chinese Encodings

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
$euc_cn = encode("euc-cn", $utf8);   # loads Encode::CN implicitly
$utf8   = decode("euc-cn", $euc_cn); # ditto
            
          

DESCRIPTION

This module implements China-based Chinese charset encodings. Encodings supported are as follows.

            

              
              
Canonical   Alias               Description
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euc-cn      /\beuc.*cn$/i       EUC (Extended Unix Character)
        /\bcn.*euc$/i
            /\bGB[-_ ]?2312(?:\D.*$|$)/i (see below)
gb2312-raw                      The raw (low-bit) GB2312 character map
gb12345-raw                     Traditional chinese counterpart to 
              GB2312 (raw)
iso-ir-165                      GB2312 + GB6345 + GB8565 + additions
MacChineseSimp                GB2312 + Apple Additions
cp936                           Code Page 936, also known as GBK 
              (Extended GuoBiao)
hz                              7-bit escaped GB2312 encoding
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To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode.

NOTES

Due to size concerns, GB 18030 (an extension to GBK) is distributed separately on CPAN, under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra Taiwan-based encodings.

BUGS

When you see charset=gb2312 on mails and web pages, they really mean euc-cn encodings. To fix that, gb2312 is aliased to euc-cn. Use gb2312-raw when you really mean it.

The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium.

SEE ALSO

Encode