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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-03-20 00:55:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-03-20 00:55:54 +0000 |
| commit | b310b0538cc1a7948587a9e5ff30683fec2a3ece (patch) | |
| tree | f3f8fa0dd8ad9ba1aecae60fa5a8079b3fb69237 /pod/perluniintro.pod | |
| parent | 563aca73f1f51dd4b10089896b544a6ae41316cb (diff) | |
| download | perl-b310b0538cc1a7948587a9e5ff30683fec2a3ece.tar.gz | |
If it looks like UTF-8 (either nl_langinfo or locale variables),
think UTF-8, embrace your inner UTF-8, as suggested by Larry.
(And as suggested by Markus Kuhn.)
While we are at it, document also the case of
mixed hash keys as a known potential troublemaker.
(Since it's locale-related, sometimes.)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15350
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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index c560723f80..dd3064f6bf 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ To output UTF-8 always, use the ":utf8" output discipline. Prepending to this sample program ensures the output is completely UTF-8, and of course, removes the warning. +If your locale environment variables (LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG) +contain the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8' (case-insensitive matching), +the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and of +B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8. + =head2 Unicode and EBCDIC Perl 5.8.0 also supports Unicode on EBCDIC platforms. There, |