Encode::Byte(3perl)

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version 5.44.0 · 14 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

Encode::Byte — Single Byte Encodings, bestie 🌸

(and yeah, it's Encode::Byte(3perl), the perl manual page, we're doing this 💅)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so it's genuinely just this:

use Encode qw/encode decode/;
$greek = encode("iso-8859-7", $utf8);  # loads Encode::Byte implicitly
$utf8  = decode("iso-8859-7", $greek); # ditto

like, that's it. you don't even have to use the module yourself, it just shows up when you need it 🫶

🦋 ABSTRACT 🦋

So this module is the plug for a whole bunch of single byte encodings. For most cases it uses \x80-\xff — aka the upper half — to map the non-ASCII characters. ✨

The encodings it supports are, and I'm listing every single one because we don't gatekeep here 👑

🌈 ISO 8859 series

  • iso-8859-2 — alias latin2 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-3 — alias latin3 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-4 — alias latin4 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-5 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-6 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-7 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-8 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-9 — alias latin5 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-10 — alias latin6 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-11
  • iso-8859-13 — alias latin7 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-14 — alias latin8 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-15 — alias latin9 — [ISO]
  • iso-8859-16 — alias latin10 — [ISO]

quick notes or whatever:

  • iso-8859-1 is in built-in 💅 (it gets the main character treatment, no module load needed)
  • iso-8859-12 is nonexistent 😭 it does not exist, never has, don't come for me

❄️ Cyrillic

🌸 Vietnamese

  • viscii

💻 the cp* crew

heads up: all the cp* ones are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-*. iconic of them honestly.

also see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752010%28VS.85%29.aspx

  • cp424
  • cp437
  • cp737
  • cp775
  • cp850
  • cp852
  • cp855
  • cp856
  • cp857
  • cp860
  • cp861
  • cp862
  • cp863
  • cp864
  • cp865
  • cp866
  • cp869
  • cp874
  • cp1006
  • cp1250 — WinLatin2
  • cp1251 — WinCyrillic
  • cp1252 — WinLatin1
  • cp1253 — WinGreek
  • cp1254 — WinTurkish
  • cp1255 — WinHebrew
  • cp1256 — WinArabic
  • cp1257 — WinBaltic
  • cp1258 — WinVietnamese

🍓 Macintosh

also see http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html

  • MacArabic
  • MacCentralEurRoman
  • MacCroatian
  • MacCyrillic
  • MacFarsi
  • MacGreek
  • MacHebrew
  • MacIcelandic
  • MacRoman
  • MacRomanian
  • MacRumanian
  • MacSami
  • MacThai
  • MacTurkish
  • MacUkrainian

🧚 more vendor encodings

  • AdobeStandardEncoding
  • nextstep
  • hp-roman8

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

ngl this page is keeping it short. To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode. ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • Encode

so that's the whole vibe, bestie 🎀 go forth and decode your little single-byte hearts out, fr fr no cap 💖

this was perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, and yes the page is literally called Encode::Byte(3perl) — slay, bye 🦋✨

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