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Encode::KR

NAME

Encode::KR - Korean Encodings

SYNOPSIS

  1.     use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
  2.     $euc_kr = encode("euc-kr", $utf8);   # loads Encode::KR implicitly
  3.     $utf8   = decode("euc-kr", $euc_kr); # ditto

DESCRIPTION

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

  1.   Canonical   Alias		Description
  2.   --------------------------------------------------------------------
  3.   euc-kr      /\beuc.*kr$/i	EUC (Extended Unix Character)
  4.           /\bkr.*euc$/i
  5.   ksc5601-raw			Korean standard code set (as is)
  6.   cp949	      /(?:x-)?uhc$/i
  7.               /(?:x-)?windows-949$/i
  8.               /\bks_c_5601-1987$/i
  9.                                 Code Page 949 (EUC-KR + 8,822 
  10.                                 (additional Hangul syllables)
  11.   MacKorean			EUC-KR + Apple Vendor Mappings
  12.   johab       JOHAB             A supplementary encoding defined in 
  13.                                              Annex 3 of KS X 1001:1998
  14.   iso-2022-kr                   iso-2022-kr                  [RFC1557]
  15.   --------------------------------------------------------------------

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

BUGS

When you see charset=ks_c_5601-1987 on mails and web pages, they really mean "cp949" encodings. To fix that, the following aliases are set;

  1.   qr/(?:x-)?uhc$/i         => '"cp949"'
  2.   qr/(?:x-)?windows-949$/i => '"cp949"'
  3.   qr/ks_c_5601-1987$/i     => '"cp949"'

The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium.

SEE ALSO

Encode