Image::ExifTool::Charset(3)

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)