Noted by Nat: -0 didn't work that well with Unicode.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19185

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index c20d4429ed..e6c8f73fce 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
 B<perl>	S<[ B<-sTtuUWX> ]>
 	S<[ B<-hv> ] [ B<-V>[:I<configvar>] ]>
 	S<[ B<-cw> ] [ B<-d>[:I<debugger>] ] [ B<-D>[I<number/list>] ]>
-	S<[ B<-pna> ] [ B<-F>I<pattern> ] [ B<-l>[I<octal>] ] [ B<-0>[I<octal>] ]>
+	S<[ B<-pna> ] [ B<-F>I<pattern> ] [ B<-l>[I<octal>] ] [ B<-0>[I<octal/hexadecimal>] ]>
 	S<[ B<-I>I<dir> ] [ B<-m>[B<->]I<module> ] [ B<-M>[B<->]I<'module...'> ]>
 	S<[ B<-P> ]>
 	S<[ B<-S> ]>
@@ -234,19 +234,24 @@ Switches include:
 
 =over 5
 
-=item B<-0>[I<digits>]
+=item B<-0>[I<octal/hexadecimal>]
 
-specifies the input record separator (C<$/>) as an octal number.  If there are
-no digits, the null character is the separator.  Other switches may
-precede or follow the digits.  For example, if you have a version of
-B<find> which can print filenames terminated by the null character, you
-can say this:
+specifies the input record separator (C<$/>) as an octal or
+hexadecimal number.  If there are no digits, the null character is the
+separator.  Other switches may precede or follow the digits.  For
+example, if you have a version of B<find> which can print filenames
+terminated by the null character, you can say this:
 
     find . -name '*.orig' -print0 | perl -n0e unlink
 
 The special value 00 will cause Perl to slurp files in paragraph mode.
 The value 0777 will cause Perl to slurp files whole because there is no
-legal character with that value.
+legal byte with that value.
+
+If you want to specify any Unicode character, use the hexadecimal
+format: C<-0xHHH...>, where the C<H> are valid hexadecimal digits.
+(This means that you cannot use the C<-x> with a directory name that
+consists of hexadecimal digits.)
 
 =item B<-a>