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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-03-03 19:15:07 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-03-03 19:15:07 +0000
commitbf61ac64f9c44081613e3d1b479639fda606e19f (patch)
treecad4e701e3887ecdb59cc3e954cc83bd83ebf6bf /pod
parentedd55068839c345dfb2c25887f70d5c69e05b5d3 (diff)
downloadperl-bf61ac64f9c44081613e3d1b479639fda606e19f.tar.gz
Further clarification on PERL_UNICODE's semantics.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18819
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diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
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@@ -1099,7 +1099,9 @@ C<safe> the safe signals are used.
=item PERL_UNICODE
-Equivalent to the B<-C> command-line switch.
+Equivalent to the B<-C> command-line switch. Note that this is not
+a boolean variable-- setting this to C<"1"> is not the right way to
+"enable Unicode" (whatever that would mean).
=item SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)