PerlIO::encoding3p

Encoding layer

Usage

  use PerlIO::encoding;
  open($f, "<:encoding(foo)", "infoo");
  open($f, ">:encoding(bar)", "outbar");
  use Encode qw(:fallbacks);
  $PerlIO::encoding::fallback = FB_PERLQQ;

Overview

This PerlIO layer opens a filehandle with a transparent encoding filter.

On input, it converts the bytes expected to be in the specified character set and encoding to Perl string data (Unicode and Perl's internal Unicode encoding, UTF-8). On output, it converts Perl string data into the specified character set and encoding.

When the layer is pushed, the current value of $PerlIO::encoding::fallback is saved and used as the CHECK argument when calling the Encode methods encode() and decode().

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

5.0–5.3
5.4–5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8–5.9
6.0
6.1
6.2
6.3–6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9–7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7–7.8
7.9
8.0