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| author | Anton Tagunov <tagunov@motor.ru> | 2002-03-12 04:40:58 +0300 |
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| committer | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> | 2002-03-12 05:50:08 +0000 |
| commit | 094ce63c66fa8d25297cfc86e6aed299ee830254 (patch) | |
| tree | 47e6a82fbe04a2d9c925d4a864bc0b77451d4a32 /lib/utf8.pm | |
| parent | b410b86c2da9da5b2c90f7080f515714ad768747 (diff) | |
| download | perl-094ce63c66fa8d25297cfc86e6aed299ee830254.tar.gz | |
fix format in lib/utf8.pm and polish the meaning
Message-Id: <1194068830.20020312014058@motor.ru>
(Applied with tweaks.)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15192
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/utf8.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/utf8.pm | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/utf8.pm b/lib/utf8.pm index b18a043f10..9023eb6eb2 100644 --- a/lib/utf8.pm +++ b/lib/utf8.pm @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ pragma. Converts (in-place) I<$string> from logical characters to octet sequence representing it in Perl's I<UTF-X> encoding. Note that this should not be used to convert a legacy byte encoding to Unicode: use -Encode for that. =item * $flag = utf8::decode($string) +Encode for that. + +=item * $flag = utf8::decode($string) Attempts to convert I<$string> in-place from Perl's I<UTF-X> encoding into logical characters. Note that this should not be used to convert @@ -103,11 +105,11 @@ Unicode back to a legacy byte encoding: use Encode for that. =back -C<utf8::encode> is like C<utf8::upgrade> but the UTF8 flag does not -get turned on. See L<perlunicode> for more on the UTF8 flag and the C -API functions C<sv_utf8_upgrade>, C<sv_utf8_downgrade>, -C<sv_utf8_encode>, C<sv_utf8_decode> that are wrapped by the Perl -functions C<utf8::upgrade>, C<utf8::downgrade>, C<utf8::encode> and +C<utf8::encode> is like C<utf8::upgrade>, but the UTF8 flag is cleared. +See L<perlunicode> for more on the UTF8 flag and the C API functions +C<sv_utf8_upgrade>, C<sv_utf8_downgrade>, C<sv_utf8_encode>, +and C<sv_utf8_decode>, which are wrapped by the Perl functions +C<utf8::upgrade>, C<utf8::downgrade>, C<utf8::encode> and C<utf8::decode>. =head1 SEE ALSO |