Encode::KR(3pm)

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version 5.42.3 · 4 versions
, in alpine 3.24

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay bestie, meet Encode::KR — the Korean Encodings module 💖. This is the Encode::KR(3pm) page, and it’s here to spill the Korean charset encoding tea, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Like, literally just:

    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. The encodings supported are, and I quote the vibe, as follows — canonical name, alias, description, the whole lineup ✨:

  • euc-kr — aliases: /\beuc.*kr$/i, /\bkr.*euc$/i — EUC (Extended Unix Character) 🌈
  • ksc5601-raw — no alias listed — Korean standard code set (as is) 🎀
  • cp949 — aliases: /(?:x-)?uhc$/i, /(?:x-)?windows-949$/i, /\bks_c_5601-1987$/i — Code Page 949 (EUC-KR + 8,822 (additional Hangul syllables) 🦋
  • MacKorean — no alias listed — EUC-KR + Apple Vendor Mappings 🍓
  • johab — alias: JOHAB — A supplementary encoding defined in Annex 3 of KS X 1001:1998 👑
  • iso-2022-kr — alias: iso-2022-kr — [RFC1557] ⭐

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

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Okay so here’s the bug-ish tea, bestie 💀: 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"'

Also, the ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium 😭. That caveat is real, fr fr.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • Encode 💅

💖 This page is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03 — Encode::KR(3pm) bestie, slay and goodbye! 🫶💅

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