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Encode::Byte

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3pm)
Updated: 2001-09-21
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NAME

Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings

SYNOPSIS

    use Encode qw/encode decode/;     $greek = encode("iso-8859-7", $utf8);  # loads Encode::Byte implicitly    $utf8  = decode("iso-8859-7", $greek); # ditto

ABSTRACT

This module implements various single byte encodings. For most cases it uses\x80-\xff (upper half) to map non-ASCII characters. Encodingssupported are as follows.

  Canonical      Alias                                Description  --------------------------------------------------------------------  # 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  gsm0338       # used in GSM handsets  hp-roman8

DESCRIPTION

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

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