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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      /\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.

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