Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings
- use Encode qw/encode decode/;
- $greek = encode("iso-8859-7", $utf8); # loads Encode::Byte implicitly
- $utf8 = decode("iso-8859-7", $greek); # ditto
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 cp878 [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>
- cp424
- cp437
- cp737
- cp775
- cp850
- cp852
- cp855
- cp856
- cp857
- cp860
- cp861
- cp862
- cp863
- cp864
- cp865
- cp866
- cp869
- cp874
- cp1006
- cp1250 WinLatin2
- cp1251 WinCyrillic
- cp1252 WinLatin1
- cp1253 WinGreek
- cp1254 WinTurkish
- cp1255 WinHebrew
- cp1256 WinArabic
- cp1257 WinBaltic
- cp1258 WinVietnamese
- # Macintosh
- # Also see L<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>
- MacArabic
- MacCentralEurRoman
- MacCroatian
- MacCyrillic
- MacFarsi
- MacGreek
- MacHebrew
- MacIcelandic
- MacRoman
- MacRomanian
- MacRumanian
- MacSami
- MacThai
- MacTurkish
- MacUkrainian
- # More vendor encodings
- AdobeStandardEncoding
- nextstep
- hp-roman8
To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode.