Re: decode a string to "Perl's internal form" without Encode module?

Raymundo <gypark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
Hello,

At first, I'm sorry that I'm not good at English. :-)

There is a string which is encoded with UTF-8, EUC-KR(Korean), EUC-JP,
or any other encoding scheme.

I want to decode it so that it become a string in "Perl's internal
form" (that is, unicode form.. is it so called "utf8"?).

For example,
$octets = "°¡³ª"; # 2 Korean characters, sequence of 6 Bytes
according to UTF-8
$string = "\x{AC00}\x{B098}"; # 2 Unicode characters. I want to get
this from $octets

It can be done easily using Encode module:
use Encode qw(decode);

$string = decode("UTF-8", $octets);

My question is, if I don't have Encode module in my server and I have

You have the Encode module, it is part of every complete Perl
installation.

Text::Iconv module instead, Can I do the same thing using it? If I
can, how?

I don't know the Text::Iconv module, so I can't answer that. If Encode
works for you, use that.

Anno
.

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