NAME
Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings
SYNOPSIS
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
$latin1 = encode("iso-8859-1", $utf8); # loads Encode::Byte implicitly
$utf8 = decode("iso-8859-1", $latin1); # dittoABSTRACT
This module implements various single byte encodings. For most cases it uses \x80-\xff (upper half) to map non-ASCII characters. Encodings supported are as follows.
Canonical Alias Description
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# ISO 8859 series
(iso-8859-1 is in built-in)
iso-8859-2 latin2 [ISO]
iso-8859-3 latin3 [ISO]
iso-8859-4 latin4 [ISO]
iso-8859-5 [ISO]
iso-8859-6 [ISO]
iso-8859-7 [ISO]
iso-8859-8 [ISO]
iso-8859-9 latin5 [ISO]
iso-8859-10 latin6 [ISO]
iso-8859-11
(iso-8859-12 is nonexistent)
iso-8859-13 latin7 [ISO]
iso-8859-14 latin8 [ISO]
iso-8859-15 latin9 [ISO]
iso-8859-16 latin10 [ISO]
# Cyrillic
koi8-f
koi8-r [RFC1489]
koi8-u [RFC2319]
# Vietnamese
viscii
# all cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-*
# also see L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.asp>
cp1250 WinLatin2
cp1251 WinCyrillic
cp1252 WinLatin1
cp1253 WinGreek
cp1254 WinTurkiskh
cp1255 WinHebrew
cp1256 WinArabic
cp1257 WinBaltic
cp1258 WinVietnamese
# Macintosh
# Also see L<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>
MacCentralEurRoman
MacCroatian
MacRoman
MacCyrillic
MacRomanian
MacSami
MacGreek
MacThai
MacIcelandic
MacTurkish
MacUkrainian
# More vendor encodings
nextstep
gsm0338 # used in GSM handsets
hp-roman8DESCRIPTION
To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode.