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

NAME

       Encode::KR - Korean Encodings

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

	 Canonical   Alias	       Description
	 --------------------------------------------------------------------
	 euc-kr      /euc.*kr$/i     EUC (Extended Unix Character)
		     /kr.*euc$/i
	 ksc5601-raw		       Korean standard code set (as is)
	 cp949	     /(?:x-)?uhc$/i
		     /(?:x-)?windows-949$/i
		     /ks_c_5601-1987$/i
				       Code Page 949 (EUC-KR + 8,822
				       (additional Hangul syllables)
	 MacKorean		       EUC-KR + Apple Vendor Mappings
	 johab	     JOHAB	       A supplementary encoding defined in
						    Annex 3 of KS X 1001:1998
	 iso-2022-kr		       iso-2022-kr		    [RFC1557]
	 --------------------------------------------------------------------

       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;

	 qr/(?:x-)?uhc$/i	  => '"cp949"'
	 qr/(?:x-)?windows-949$/i => '"cp949"'
	 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

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

       to find out why it is implemented that way.

SEE ALSO

       Encode

perl v5.8.0							    2002-06-01							   Encode::KR(3pm)