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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-05-06 05:12:23 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-05-06 05:12:23 +0000
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Document which interfaces are NOT Unicode-aware.
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@@ -695,10 +695,13 @@ and so on, varies. Finding the right level of interfacing to Perl
requires some thought. Remember that an OS does not implicate a
filesystem.
-Note that in Windows the -C command line flag already does quite
-a bit of the above (but even there the support is not complete:
-for example the exec/spawn are not Unicode-aware) by turning on
-the so-called "wide API support".
+(The Windows -C command flag "wide API support" has been at least
+temporarily retired in 5.8.1, and the -C has been repurposed, see
+L<perlrun>.)
+
+=head1 Unicode in %ENV
+
+Currently the %ENV entries are always byte strings.
=head1 Recently done things