Encode::Symbol(3p)

Encode::Symbol3p

Symbol encodings

Usage

    use Encode qw/encode decode/; 
    $symbol  = encode("symbol", $utf8); # loads Encode::Symbol implicitly
    $utf8 = decode("", $symbol);        # ditto

Abstract

This module implements symbol and dingbats encodings. Encodings supported are as follows.

  Canonical   Alias             Description
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  symbol
  dingbats
  AdobeZDingbat
  AdobeSymbol
  MacDingbats

Overview

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

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

  1. 5.0–5.3
  2. 5.4–5.5
  3. 5.6
  4. 5.7
  5. 5.8–5.9
  6. 6.0
  7. 6.1
  8. 6.2
  9. 6.3–6.4
  10. 6.5
  11. 6.6
  12. 6.7
  13. 6.8
  14. 6.9–7.2
  15. 7.3
  16. 7.4
  17. 7.5
  18. 7.6
  19. 7.7–7.8
  20. 7.9
  21. 8.0

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.