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Encode::Byte

NAME

Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings

SYNOPSIS

  1.     use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
  2.     $greek = encode("iso-8859-7", $utf8);  # loads Encode::Byte implicitly
  3.     $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. Encodings supported are as follows.

  1.   Canonical      Alias		                      Description
  2.   --------------------------------------------------------------------
  3.   # ISO 8859 series
  4.   (iso-8859-1	is in built-in)
  5.   iso-8859-2	latin2					     [ISO]
  6.   iso-8859-3	latin3					     [ISO]
  7.   iso-8859-4	latin4					     [ISO]
  8.   iso-8859-5						     [ISO]
  9.   iso-8859-6						     [ISO]
  10.   iso-8859-7						     [ISO]
  11.   iso-8859-8						     [ISO]
  12.   iso-8859-9	latin5					     [ISO]
  13.   iso-8859-10	latin6					     [ISO]
  14.   iso-8859-11
  15.   (iso-8859-12 is nonexistent)
  16.   iso-8859-13   latin7					     [ISO]
  17.   iso-8859-14	latin8					     [ISO]
  18.   iso-8859-15	latin9					     [ISO]
  19.   iso-8859-16	latin10					     [ISO]
  21.   # Cyrillic
  22.   koi8-f					
  23.   koi8-r        cp878					 [RFC1489]
  24.   koi8-u						 [RFC2319]
  26.   # Vietnamese
  27.   viscii
  29.   # all cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-*
  30.   # also see L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752010%28VS.85%29.aspx>
  32.   cp424  
  33.   cp437  
  34.   cp737  
  35.   cp775  
  36.   cp850  
  37.   cp852  
  38.   cp855  
  39.   cp856  
  40.   cp857  
  41.   cp860  
  42.   cp861  
  43.   cp862  
  44.   cp863  
  45.   cp864  
  46.   cp865  
  47.   cp866  
  48.   cp869  
  49.   cp874  
  50.   cp1006  
  51.   cp1250	WinLatin2
  52.   cp1251	WinCyrillic
  53.   cp1252	WinLatin1
  54.   cp1253	WinGreek
  55.   cp1254	WinTurkish
  56.   cp1255	WinHebrew
  57.   cp1256	WinArabic
  58.   cp1257	WinBaltic
  59.   cp1258	WinVietnamese
  61.   # Macintosh
  62.   # Also see L<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>
  63.   MacArabic  
  64.   MacCentralEurRoman  
  65.   MacCroatian  
  66.   MacCyrillic  
  67.   MacFarsi  
  68.   MacGreek  
  69.   MacHebrew  
  70.   MacIcelandic  
  71.   MacRoman  
  72.   MacRomanian  
  73.   MacRumanian  
  74.   MacSami  
  75.   MacThai  
  76.   MacTurkish  
  77.   MacUkrainian  
  79.   # More vendor encodings
  80.   AdobeStandardEncoding
  81.   nextstep
  82.   hp-roman8

DESCRIPTION

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

SEE ALSO

Encode