---
name: "Image::ExifTool::Charset"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-image-exiftool"
version: "13.55-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Image::ExifTool::Charset"
---

# Image::ExifTool::Charset(3pm)

ExifTool character encoding routines

## NAME

Image::ExifTool::Charset - ExifTool character encoding routines

## SYNOPSIS

This module is required by Image::ExifTool.

## DESCRIPTION

This module contains routines used by ExifTool to translate special character sets.  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
```

However, only some of these character sets are available to the user via ExifTool options -- the multi-byte character sets are used only internally when decoding certain types of information.

## 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.

## SEE ALSO

[**Image::ExifTool**(3pm)](/Image::ExifTool/3pm.md)