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Encode::CN(3pm)                       Perl Programmers Reference Guide                       Encode::CN(3pm)



NAME
       Encode::CN - China-based Chinese Encodings

SYNOPSIS
           use Encode qw/encode decode/;
           $euc_cn = encode("euc-cn", $utf8);   # loads Encode::CN implicitly
           $utf8   = decode("euc-cn", $euc_cn); # ditto

DESCRIPTION
       This module implements China-based Chinese charset encodings.  Encodings supported are as follows.

         Canonical   Alias             Description
         --------------------------------------------------------------------euc-cn -------------------------------------------------------------------euc-cn
         euc-cn      /\beuc.*cn$/i     EUC (Extended Unix Character)
                     /\bcn.*euc$/i
                     /\bGB[-_ ]?2312(?:\D.*$|$)/i (see below)
         gb2312-raw                    The raw (low-bit) GB2312 character map
         gb12345-raw                   Traditional chinese counterpart to
                                       GB2312 (raw)
         iso-ir-165                    GB2312 + GB6345 + GB8565 + additions
         MacChineseSimp                GB2312 + Apple Additions
         cp936                         Code Page 936, also known as GBK
                                       (Extended GuoBiao)
         hz                            7-bit escaped GB2312 encoding
         --------------------------------------------------------------------To -------------------------------------------------------------------To

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

NOTES
       Due to size concerns, "GB 18030" (an extension to "GBK") is distributed separately on CPAN, under the
       name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra Taiwan-based encodings.

BUGS
       When you see "charset=gb2312" on mails and web pages, they really mean "euc-cn" encodings.  To fix
       that, "gb2312" is aliased to "euc-cn".  Use "gb2312-raw" when you really mean it.

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

       <http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en

       to find out why it is implemented that way.

SEE ALSO
       Encode



perl v5.8.8                                      2001-09-21                                  Encode::CN(3pm)