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
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  euc-cn      /euc.*cn$/i	EUC (Extended Unix Character)
	      /cn.*euc$/i
  gb2312			The raw (low-bit) GB2312 character map
  gb12345			Traditional chinese counterpart to 
				GB2312 (raw)
  iso-ir-165			GB2312 + GB6345 + GB8565 + additions
  cp936				Code Page 936, also known as GBK 
				(Extended GuoBiao)
  hz				7-bit escaped GB2312 encoding
  --------------------------------------------------------------------

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

ASCII part (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though it conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See

http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en

to find why it is implemented that way.

SEE ALSO

Encode