Test2::Tools::Encoding(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Test2::Tools::Encoding(3pm)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Test2::Tools::Encoding - Tools for managing the encoding of Test2 based tests.

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This module exports a function that lets you dynamically change the output encoding at will.

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
    use Test2::Tools::Encoding;
    set_encoding('utf8');
```

# [EXPORTS](#EXPORTS)

All subs are exported by default.

[set\_encoding($encoding)](#set_encoding%28$encoding%29)

This will set the encoding to whatever you specify. This will only affect the output of the current formatter, which is usually your TAP output formatter.

# [SOURCE](#SOURCE)

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at *https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/*.

# [MAINTAINERS](#MAINTAINERS)

[Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>](#Chad)

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

[Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>](#Chad~2)

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See *http://dev.perl.org/licenses/*

2026-10-26 perl v5.44.0

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