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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2014-08-15 09:05:28 -0600
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2014-08-24 22:14:48 +0100
commit9380dd12dea2b174639e37c0c3f917a535ac6a30 (patch)
treedf89ae05d6f3ea69311947e26dfb4692e6f3ef38
parentc42c9fa6c05612b0376ede421d11936e3d7c37a0 (diff)
downloadperl-9380dd12dea2b174639e37c0c3f917a535ac6a30.tar.gz
perldelta: Add entry for sync_locale()
(cherry picked from commit d8bcb4d6a785b98e8fa0eeaf863b9b4a64fcad35)
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index c4c0409fee..38ed903697 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -392,7 +392,11 @@ well.
=item *
-XXX
+Added L<perlapi/sync_locale>.
+Changing the program's locale should be avoided by XS code. Nevertheless,
+certain non-Perl libraries called from XS, such as C<Gtk> do so. When this
+happens, Perl needs to be told that the locale has changed. Use this function
+to do so, before returning to Perl.
=back