use Encode;
+ use Encode::TW; # for Taiwan-based Chinese encodings
+ use Encode::CN; # for China-based Chinese encodings
+ use Encode::JP; # for Japanese encodings
+ use Encode::KR; # for Korean encodings
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The C<Encode> module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings
"sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a byte has 256
possible values it easily fits in Perl's much larger "logical character".
+Due to size concerns, before using B<CJK> (Chinese, Japanese & Korean)
+encodings, you have to C<use> the corresponding
+B<Encode::>(B<TW>|B<CN>|B<JP>|B<KR>) modules first.
+
=head2 TERMINOLOGY
=over 4
Shift-JIS GBK Big5-HKSCS EUC-KR
VISCII ISO-IR-165
-(Due to size concerns, GB 18030 and EUC-TW are available separately on CPAN,
-under the name L<Encode::HanExtra>.)
+(Due to size concerns, additional Chinese encodings including C<GB 18030>,
+C<EUC-TW> and C<BIG5PLUS> are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name
+L<Encode::HanExtra>.)
The PC codepages: