Encode::Byte(3)

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. Encodings supported 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.

SEE ALSO
Encode