Filter::Encoding(3)

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version 0.01 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 Filter::Encoding — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, this is the Filter::Encoding(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and I'm about to make it make sense to you. Sit down, grab a snack 🍓, we're doing this.

✨ NAME ✨

Filter::Encoding — Write your script in any encoding 💅

Like. Any. Encoding. Your script, your rules, your vibe. 👑

🌸 VERSION 🌸

Version 0.01 — baby's first release, and she ate. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

use Filter::Encoding 'MacRoman';
# Code that follows can be written in MacRoman encoding.

That's it. That's the whole thing. No cap. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So here's the tea ☕: this module lets your code be written in any ASCII-based encoding. You just pass the name of the encoding as an argument to use Filter::Encoding, and boom 💥 — your source code gets decoded and treated as though it had been written in UTF-8 with use utf8 in effect.

And that's literally all this module does. It's not doing side quests. It's not being extra. It's giving minimal, focused, main character energy. 🌟

It's intended as a simpler, saner replacement for encoding.pm — one that does not change the up- and downgrading of strings, and does not touch your file handles. Periodt. 🫶

😭 DIAGNOSTICS 😭

Yes bestie, sometimes things go wrong. Here's what the module yells at you about:

  • Too many arguments to Filter::Encoding->import() — use Filter::Encoding (which implies ->import) only allows one argument. One. Uno. Singular. Don't be greedy. 🙈
  • Filter::Encoding: Unknown encoding '%s' — the encoding has to be one recognized by the Encode module. If Encode doesn't know her, we don't know her either. 💀

🌈 PREREQUISITES 🌈

  • perl 5.8.0 or later ⭐

Old perl? Not invited to the party. Sorry not sorry.

Copyright (C) 2016 Father Chrysostomos <sprout [at] cpan [dot] org>

This program is free software; you may redistribute it, modify it, or both under the same terms as perl. 🫶

🧚 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🧚

Much of the code was based on the filter feature of encoding.pm. Shoutout to the ancestors. 💐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • Encode
  • encoding

Go read those too, iykyk. 📚

💀 POD ERRORS 💀

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

Around line 71:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

Around line 80:

You forgot a '=back' before a '=head1'

Not me exposing the pod's messy era 😭 — but fr fr, those are the actual errors, we don't hide them here.

And that's the whole page, bestie. This was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, filed under Filter::Encoding(3) — mwah 💋, go write some encoded code, you icon. 🎀✨🦋

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