Image::...Charset(3)

✨ Image::...Charset(3) ✨

okay so bestie, this lil page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's literally all about how ExifTool handles character encoding 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

Image::ExifTool::Charset — ExifTool character encoding routines. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

This module is required by Image::ExifTool. like, not optional, not a suggestion, it's a whole dependency situation 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this module is where ExifTool keeps the routines it uses to translate special character sets. the way it just... handles them all?? iconic behavior fr fr 👑

currently, the following character sets are supported:

UTF8, UTF16, UCS2, UCS4, Arabic, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, JIS,
Latin, Latin2, DOSLatinUS, DOSLatin1, DOSCyrillic, MacArabic,
MacChineseCN, MacChineseTW, MacCroatian, MacCyrillic, MacGreek, MacHebrew,
MacIceland, MacJapanese, MacKorean, MacLatin2, MacRSymbol, MacRoman,
MacRomanian, MacThai, MacTurkish, PDFDoc, RSymbol, ShiftJIS, Symbol, Thai,
Turkish, Vietnam

look at that list. it ate. no crumbs 🌈

BUT — and this is the important part, don't skip it — only some of these character sets are available to the user via ExifTool options. the multi-byte character sets? those are used only internally when decoding certain types of information. so no, you can't just grab them and run, they're backstage only, main-character-adjacent but not on stage 🎭

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. so like, go off, but under Perl's terms, periodt 💅

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, hope it slayed 🫶

this was perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's still Image::...Charset(3) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section — mwah, bye! 🎀💖✨