NAME

Encode::JP - Japanese Encodings

SYNOPSIS

use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
$euc_jp = encode("euc-jp", $utf8);   # loads Encode::JP implicitly
$utf8   = decode("euc-jp", $euc_jp); # ditto

ABSTRACT

This module implements Japanese charset encodings. Encodings supported are as follows.

  Canonical   Alias		Description
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  euc-jp      /euc.*jp$/i	EUC (Extended Unix Character)
              /jp.*euc/i   
	      /ujis$/i
  shiftjis    /shift.*jis$/i	Shift JIS (aka MS Kanji)
	      /sjis$/i
  7bit-jis    /^jis$/i		7bit JIS
  iso-2022-jp			ISO-2022-JP 
				(7bit JIS with all Halfwidth Kana 
				 converted to Fullwidth)
  macjapan      Mac Japan	(Shift JIS + Apple vendor mappings)
  cp932         Code Page 932	(Shift JIS + MS/IBM vendor mappings)
  --------------------------------------------------------------------

DESCRIPTION

To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode.

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