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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-08-11 04:24:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-08-11 04:24:34 +0000 |
| commit | cd28123a2c77a86bd3079d0bff9f940c7270fdb6 (patch) | |
| tree | b6f0ea1668d5d90179278262bd7db45772e86bc6 | |
| parent | 1e9c1022d083eab04a1d88cf3f92a6f2fc2b0791 (diff) | |
| download | perl-cd28123a2c77a86bd3079d0bff9f940c7270fdb6.tar.gz | |
Explain the 'Wide character in print' a bit more.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20608
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 30ea1ff170..2d29e70821 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -4467,9 +4467,12 @@ So put in parentheses to say what you really mean. =item Wide character in %s (W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting -one. This warning is by default on for I/O (like print) but can be -turned off by C<no warnings 'utf8';>. You are supposed to explicitly -mark the filehandle with an encoding, see L<open> and L<perlfunc/binmode>. +one. This warning is by default on for I/O (like print). The easiest +way to quiet this warning is simply to add the C<:utf8> layer to the +output, e.g. C<binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'>. Another way to turn off the +warning is to add C<no warnings 'utf8';> but that is often closer to +cheating. In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the +filehandle with an encoding, see L<open> and L<perlfunc/binmode>. =item Within []-length '%c' not allowed |