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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-08-22 08:01:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-08-22 08:01:57 +0000 |
| commit | 19b49582fab193cc13bf58f05a1780c8211d4b7a (patch) | |
| tree | 73276db92b4a75d511f421b7f1d2e5779bcd4863 /lib/utf8.pm | |
| parent | 0dae2686841bf2186fe9f1c6efdba42ed8ac3fd4 (diff) | |
| download | perl-19b49582fab193cc13bf58f05a1780c8211d4b7a.tar.gz | |
Try to make the use of utf8 as clear as possible.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20822
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/utf8.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/utf8.pm | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/utf8.pm b/lib/utf8.pm index f357dbf9b9..9039447b16 100644 --- a/lib/utf8.pm +++ b/lib/utf8.pm @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ earlier than 5.6 allowed arbitrary bytes in source code, whereas in future we would like to standardize on the UTF-8 encoding for source text. +B<Do not use this pragma for anything else than telling Perl that your +script is written in UTF-8.> The utility functions described below are +useful for their own purposes, but they are not really part of the +"pragmatic" effect. + Until UTF-8 becomes the default format for source text, either this pragma or the L</encoding> pragma should be used to recognize UTF-8 in the source. When UTF-8 becomes the standard source format, this @@ -97,7 +102,7 @@ the same as C<use utf8;>. The following functions are defined in the C<utf8::> package by the Perl core. You do not need to say C<use utf8> to use these and in fact -you should not unless you really want to have UTF-8 source code. +you should not say that unless you really want to have UTF-8 source code. =over 4 |