Fix issues with UTF-8 in the Perl checking script.

git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@871 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/perltest.txt b/doc/perltest.txt
index 3785bdd..37e0012 100644
--- a/doc/perltest.txt
+++ b/doc/perltest.txt
@@ -28,13 +28,15 @@ the initial identifying banner.
 The perltest.pl script can also test UTF-8 features. It recognizes the special
 modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput4
 and testinput6 files can be fed to perltest to run compatible UTF-8 tests.
-However, it is necessary to add "use utf8;" to the script to make this work
-correctly.
+However, it is necessary to add "use utf8; require Encode" to the script to
+make this work correctly. I have not managed to find a way to handle this 
+automatically.
 
 The other testinput files are not suitable for feeding to perltest.pl, since
 they make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that pcretest
-uses to test some features of PCRE. Some of these files also contains malformed
-regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them correctly.
+uses to test certain features of PCRE. Some of these files also contain
+malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them
+correctly.
 
 Philip Hazel
 January 2012