diff options
author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-11-10 06:10:39 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-11-10 06:10:39 +0000 |
commit | c26c758be9c6b4b88aa5d07ac4631a815b5f2e2f (patch) | |
tree | c5f0fc4e3007c21d8bf9d6cd2f49b5d596813d9a /lib/bytes.pm | |
parent | bed0e7afac8dadff911b9166e22e8a2c5a85182f (diff) | |
download | perl-c26c758be9c6b4b88aa5d07ac4631a815b5f2e2f.tar.gz |
Doc update.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12928
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/bytes.pm')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/bytes.pm | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/bytes.pm b/lib/bytes.pm index 3b0268e644..cd82abc75b 100644 --- a/lib/bytes.pm +++ b/lib/bytes.pm @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics =head1 DESCRIPTION -WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is incomplete. -See L<perlunicode> for the exact details. - The C<use bytes> pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. C<no bytes> can be used to reverse the effect of C<use bytes> within the current lexical scope. @@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated as a series of bytes. As an example, when Perl sees C<$x = chr(400)>, it encodes the character -in UTF8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, +in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, for instance, C<length $x> returns C<1>. However, in the scope of the C<bytes> pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that make up the UTF8 encoding - and C<length $x> returns C<2>: |