Doc tweaks (and one code tweak) based on Philip Newton's comments.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18731

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index 95d4857b7e..7df28e2cf3 100644
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -1043,16 +1043,10 @@ there are a couple of exceptions:
 
 =item *
 
-If your locale environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG) contain
-the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8' (matched case-insensitively) B<and> you
-enable using UTF-8 either by using the C<-C> command line switch or
-setting the PERL_UNICODE environment variable to be, C<"L">, an empty
-string, (see L<perlrun> and the documentation for the C<-C> switch for
-more information about the possible values), then the default
-encodings of your STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and of B<any subsequent
-file open>, are considered to be UTF-8.  See L<perluniintro>,
-L<perlfunc/open>, and L<open> for more information.  The magic
-variable C<${^UNICODE}> will also be set.
+You can enable automatic UTF-8-ification of your standard file
+handles, default C<open()> layer, and C<@ARGV> by using either
+the C<-C> command line switch or the C<PERL_UNICODE> environment
+variable, see L<perlrun> for the documentation of the C<-C> switch.
 
 =item *