# perldoc > Encode::EBCDIC

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type: CommandReference
command: Encode::EBCDIC
mode: perldoc
section: ""
source: perldoc
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## Quick Reference
- `encode("cp1047", $utf8)` — convert UTF-8 to EBCDIC Latin-1/Open Systems
- `decode("posix-bc", $bytes)` — convert POSIX-BC EBCDIC to UTF-8
- `decode("cp37", $bytes)` — convert EBCDIC US English to UTF-8
- `encode("cp500", $utf8)` — convert UTF-8 to EBCDIC International
- `encode("cp875", $utf8)` — convert UTF-8 to EBCDIC Greek
- `encode("cp1026", $utf8)` — convert UTF-8 to EBCDIC Turkish

## Name
EBCDIC Encodings

## Synopsis
perl
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
$posix_bc  = encode("posix-bc", $utf8);
$utf8 = decode("", $posix_bc);
## Options
The following EBCDIC encoding names are supported by `encode()` and `decode()`:

- `cp37`
- `cp500`
- `cp875`
- `cp1026`
- `cp1047`
- `posix-bc`

## See Also
- [Encode](https://perldoc.perl.org/Encode)
- [perlebcdic](https://perldoc.perl.org/perlebcdic)