1Encode::JP(3pm)        Perl Programmers Reference Guide        Encode::JP(3pm)
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NAME

6       Encode::JP - Japanese Encodings
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Encode qw/encode decode/;
10           $euc_jp = encode("euc-jp", $utf8);   # loads Encode::JP implicitly
11           $utf8   = decode("euc-jp", $euc_jp); # ditto
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ABSTRACT

14       This module implements Japanese charset encodings.  Encodings supported
15       are as follows.
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17         Canonical   Alias             Description
18         --------------------------------------------------------------------
19         euc-jp      /\beuc.*jp$/i     EUC (Extended Unix Character)
20                     /\bjp.*euc/i
21                     /\bujis$/i
22         shiftjis    /\bshift.*jis$/i  Shift JIS (aka MS Kanji)
23                     /\bsjis$/i
24         7bit-jis    /\bjis$/i         7bit JIS
25         iso-2022-jp                   ISO-2022-JP                  [RFC1468]
26                                       = 7bit JIS with all Halfwidth Kana
27                                         converted to Fullwidth
28         iso-2022-jp-1                 ISO-2022-JP-1                [RFC2237]
29                                       = ISO-2022-JP with JIS X 0212-1990
30                                         support.  See below
31         MacJapanese                   Shift JIS + Apple vendor mappings
32         cp932       /\bwindows-31j$/i Code Page 932
33                                       = Shift JIS + MS/IBM vendor mappings
34         jis0201-raw                   JIS0201, raw format
35         jis0208-raw                   JIS0201, raw format
36         jis0212-raw                   JIS0201, raw format
37         --------------------------------------------------------------------
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DESCRIPTION

40       To find out how to use this module in detail, see Encode.
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Note on ISO-2022-JP(-1)?

43       ISO-2022-JP-1 (RFC2237) is a superset of ISO-2022-JP (RFC1468) which
44       adds support for JIS X 0212-1990.  That means you can use the same code
45       to decode to utf8 but not vice versa.
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47         $utf8 = decode('iso-2022-jp-1', $stream);
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51         $utf8 = decode('iso-2022-jp',   $stream);
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53       yield the same result but
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55         $with_0212 = encode('iso-2022-jp-1', $utf8);
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59         $without_0212 = encode('iso-2022-jp', $utf8 );
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61       In the latter case, characters that map to 0212 are first converted to
62       U+3013 (0xA2AE in EUC-JP; a white square also known as 'Tofu' or 'geta
63       mark') then fed to the decoding engine.  U+FFFD is not used, in order
64       to preserve text layout as much as possible.
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BUGS

67       The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even
68       though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium.  See
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70       <http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
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72       to find out why it is implemented that way.
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SEE ALSO

75       Encode
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