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| author | Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@regex.info> | 2001-12-18 02:27:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-12-18 20:54:28 +0000 |
| commit | 4049dcd4538c1301929cdfff69bc80cbae742f94 (patch) | |
| tree | c23fcf42cb131ae28aa46d6749175706084215b1 | |
| parent | b29b993ba7cc347bd97dc1526f66f044e908b8f5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-4049dcd4538c1301929cdfff69bc80cbae742f94.tar.gz | |
pod/perluniintro.pod
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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index 775609c269..c89fef318b 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ transparently upgraded to Unicode. Internally, Perl currently uses either whatever the native eight-bit character set of the platform (for example Latin-1) or UTF-8 to encode Unicode strings. Specifically, if all code points in the string are -0xFF or less, Perl uses Latin-1. Otherwise, it uses UTF-8. +0xFF or less, Perl uses the native eight-bit character set. Otherwise, it uses UTF-8. A user of Perl does not normally need to know nor care how Perl happens to encodes its internal strings, but it becomes relevant when outputting @@ -164,8 +164,7 @@ To output UTF-8 always, use the ":utf8" output discipline. Prepending binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); to this sample program ensures the output is completely UTF-8, and -of course, removes the warning. Another way to achieve this is the -L<encoding> pragma, discussed later in L</Legacy Encodings>. +of course, removes the warning. Perl 5.8.0 will also support Unicode on EBCDIC platforms. There the support is somewhat harder to implement since additional conversions |