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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-04-24 14:17:16 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-04-24 14:17:16 +0000
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A word of warning to the users of UTF-8 locales.
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@@ -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