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authorDan Jacobson <jidanni@hoffa.dreamhost.com>2009-05-04 09:47:43 +0200
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2009-05-04 09:47:43 +0200
commit7a9a6fa18cf50e7a69207bcbaba2f2bea016e33a (patch)
tree641c622c9767c72cfcc7eaec8699cf34fb517e7d
parent94fe740e5ee75e09f4ebfa2b46529c18f028f00e (diff)
downloadperl-7a9a6fa18cf50e7a69207bcbaba2f2bea016e33a.tar.gz
Clarify that =encoding is global in POD
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@@ -300,7 +300,9 @@ module. Examples:
=back
-And don't forget, when using any command, that the command lasts up
+C<=encoding> affects the whole document, and must occur only once.
+
+And don't forget, when using any other command, that the command lasts up
until the end of its I<paragraph>, not its line. So in the
examples below, you can see that every command needs the blank
line after it, to end its paragraph.