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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2014-04-02 20:45:03 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2014-04-13 14:32:00 -0600 |
| commit | 78269f095bc831a3ca7c226f93a5bba93565dfad (patch) | |
| tree | da0125572103c7152d91b9bdfd14aa9e21b6052e | |
| parent | 41cd218c697e124b75c2964b6eb074160433569a (diff) | |
| download | perl-78269f095bc831a3ca7c226f93a5bba93565dfad.tar.gz | |
PerlIO.pm: Make pod :utf8 caution more prominent
The :utf8 layer continues to have security issues. This moves the
warning about that to earlier where it's more likely to be seen, and
makes it stand out more.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/PerlIO.pm | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PerlIO.pm b/lib/PerlIO.pm index 0a68f3a7bb..2e27f98bba 100644 --- a/lib/PerlIO.pm +++ b/lib/PerlIO.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package PerlIO; -our $VERSION = '1.08'; +our $VERSION = '1.09'; # Map layer name to package that defines it our %alias; @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ represent to be read from or written to the stream. The UTF-X encoding is chosen to render simple text parts (i.e. non-accented letters, digits and common punctuation) human readable in the encoded file. +(B<CAUTION>: This layer does not validate byte sequences. For reading input, +you should instead use C<:encoding(utf8)> instead of bare C<:utf8>.) + Here is how to write your native data out using UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) and then read it back in. @@ -114,9 +117,6 @@ and then read it back in. $in = <F>; close(F); -Note that this layer does not validate byte sequences. For reading -input, using C<:encoding(utf8)> instead of bare C<:utf8> is strongly -recommended. =item :bytes |