# phpman > perldoc > Image::ExifTool::Charset

## NAME
    [Image::ExifTool::Charset](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Image%3A%3AExifTool%3A%3ACharset/markdown) - ExifTool character encoding routines

## SYNOPSIS
    This module is required by [Image::ExifTool](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Image%3A%3AExifTool/markdown).

## 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 2003-2022, 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ExifTool/3pm/markdown)