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author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-24 14:17:16 +0000 |
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committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-24 14:17:16 +0000 |
commit | ac730995d5bc6e8a14a6df5962f39230fbf85ecd (patch) | |
tree | aa89316b9606d5d86060e91350e1d332646d10b9 /pod/perluniintro.pod | |
parent | d2c0d57ce3b8d89296988e2bcb8a7b2dd164c766 (diff) | |
download | perl-ac730995d5bc6e8a14a6df5962f39230fbf85ecd.tar.gz |
A word of warning to the users of UTF-8 locales.
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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index 82c0d83a06..84bfb983a1 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -171,7 +171,10 @@ 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. +B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8. Note that this means +that Perl expects other software to work, too: if STDIN coming +in from another command is not UTF-8, Perl will complain about +malformed UTF-8. =head2 Unicode and EBCDIC |