Encode::KR(3perl)

Encode::KR3perl

Korean encodings

Usage

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

Overview

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

  Canonical   Alias             Description
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  euc-kr      /\beuc.*kr$/i     EUC (Extended Unix Character)
          /\bkr.*euc$/i
  ksc5601-raw                   Korean standard code set (as is)
  cp949       /(?:x-)?uhc$/i
              /(?:x-)?windows-949$/i
              /\bks_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.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

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.

From perl 5.44.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.