CONTENTS

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
  • Table of Contents
• DESCRIPTION
  • TERMINOLOGY
    • character
    • byte
    • octet
• THE PERL ENCODING API
  • Basic methods
    • encode
    • decode
    • find_encoding
    • find_mime_encoding
    • from_to
    • encode_utf8
    • decode_utf8
  • Listing available encodings
  • Defining Aliases
  • Finding IANA Character Set Registry names
• Encoding via PerlIO
• Handling Malformed Data
  • List of CHECK values
    • FB_DEFAULT
    • FB_CROAK
    • FB_QUIET
    • FB_WARN
    • FB_PERLQQ FB_HTMLCREF FB_XMLCREF
    • The bitmask
    • LEAVE_SRC
  • coderef for CHECK
• Defining Encodings
• The UTF8 flag
  • Messing with Perl's Internals
    • is_utf8
    • _utf8_on
    • _utf8_off
• UTF-8 vs. utf8 vs. UTF8
• SEE ALSO
• MAINTAINER
• COPYRIGHT

#NAME

Encode - character encodings in Perl

#SYNOPSIS

use Encode qw(decode encode);
$characters = decode('UTF-8', $octets,     Encode::FB_CROAK);
$octets     = encode('UTF-8', $characters, Encode::FB_CROAK);

#Table of Contents

Encode consists of a collection of modules whose details are too extensive to fit in one document. This one itself explains the top-level APIs and general topics at a glance. For other topics and more details, see the documentation for these modules:

#Encode::Alias - Alias definitions to encodings

#Encode::Encoding - Encode Implementation Base Class

#Encode::Supported - List of Supported Encodings

#Encode::CN - Simplified Chinese Encodings

#Encode::JP - Japanese Encodings