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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-12-08 18:28:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-12-08 18:28:02 +0000 |
| commit | 0c901d84a881d3a182bc6687a12b27d7e8eb12f5 (patch) | |
| tree | f1d8667f4d2ee26fbd294b0dfaee2fa2bc1e8d4b | |
| parent | 3ecb378735db95cda9e76244a06625c00083ddfe (diff) | |
| download | perl-0c901d84a881d3a182bc6687a12b27d7e8eb12f5.tar.gz | |
Note that some of the Unicode features are
dependent on perlio.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13539
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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index 41d27cae96..0ecfba0662 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ If you run this code twice, the contents of the F<file> will be twice UTF-8 encoded. A C<use open ':utf8'> would have avoided the bug, or explicitly opening also the F<file> for input as UTF-8. +B<NOTE>: the C<:utf8> and C<:encoding> features work only if your +Perl has been built with the new "perlio" feature. Almost all +Perl 5.8 platforms do use "perlio", though: you can see whether +yours is by running "perl -V" and looking for C<useperlio=define>. + =head2 Displaying Unicode As Text Sometimes you might want to display Perl scalars containing Unicode as |