Encode::Unicode::UTF7(3pm)                      Perl Programmers Reference Guide                      Encode::Unicode::UTF7(3pm)



NAME
       Encode::Unicode::UTF7 -- UTF-7 encoding

SYNOPSIS
           use Encode qw/encode decode/;
           $utf7 = encode("UTF-7", $utf8);
           $utf8 = decode("UTF-7", $ucs2);

ABSTRACT
       This module implements UTF-7 encoding documented in RFC 2152.  UTF-7, as its name suggests, is a 7-bit re-encoded version
       of UTF-16BE.  It is designed to be MTA-safe and expected to be a standard way to exchange Unicoded mails via mails.  But
       with the advent of UTF-8 and 8-bit compliant MTAs, UTF-7 is hardly ever used.

       UTF-7 was not supported by Encode until version 1.95 because of that.  But Unicode::String, a module by Gisle Aas which
       adds Unicode supports to non-utf8-savvy perl did support UTF-7, the UTF-7 support was added so Encode can supersede
       Unicode::String 100%.

In Practice
       When you want to encode Unicode for mails and web pages, however, do not use UTF-7 unless you are sure your recipients
       and readers can handle it.  Very few MUAs and WWW Browsers support these days (only Mozilla seems to support one).  For
       general cases, use UTF-8 for message body and MIME-Header for header instead.

SEE ALSO
       Encode, Encode::Unicode, Unicode::String

       RFC 2781 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2152.txt>;



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-07                                 Encode::Unicode::UTF7(3pm)