EBCDIC: the encoding pragma would need some rethinking,

probably a pass of EBCDIC->Unicode mapping.  For now,
disable it on EBCDIC.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14572

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/encoding.pm b/lib/encoding.pm
index 642726da7e..1504a92639 100644
--- a/lib/encoding.pm
+++ b/lib/encoding.pm
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ our $VERSION = '1.00';
 
 use Encode;
 
+BEGIN {
+    if (ord("A") == 193) {
+	require Carp;
+	Carp::croak "encoding pragma does not support EBCDIC platforms";
+    }
+}
+
 sub import {
     my ($class, $name) = @_;
     $name = $ENV{PERL_ENCODING} if @_ < 2;
@@ -94,6 +101,8 @@ For native multibyte encodings (either fixed or variable length)
 the current implementation of the regular expressions may introduce
 recoding errors for longer regular expression literals than 127 bytes.
 
+The encoding pragma is not supported on EBCDIC platforms.
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<perlunicode>, L<Encode>
diff --git a/lib/encoding.t b/lib/encoding.t
index 8b14c8881a..d61c4f649e 100644
--- a/lib/encoding.t
+++ b/lib/encoding.t
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 print "1..19\n";
 
+BEGIN {
+    if (ord("A") == 193) {
+	print "1..0 # encoding pragma does not support EBCDIC platforms\n";
+    }
+}
+
 use encoding "latin1"; # ignored (overwritten by the next line)
 use encoding "greek";  # iso 8859-7 (no "latin" alias, surprise...)