remove the warning added for 5.16 and indicate the count is chars not bytes

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 47b202aba4..998ea422d4 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ referenced integer.  So this:
     open my $fh, "<", $myfile or die $!;
     local $_ = <$fh>;
 
-will read a record of no more than 32768 bytes from $fh.  If you're
+will read a record of no more than 32768 characters from $fh.  If you're
 not reading from a record-oriented file (or your OS doesn't have
 record-oriented files), then you'll likely get a full chunk of data
 with every read.  If a record is larger than the record size you've
@@ -1370,13 +1370,6 @@ buffering,so you must not mix record and non-record reads on the
 same filehandle.  Record mode mixes with line mode only when the
 same buffering layer is in use for both modes.
 
-If you perform a record read on a FILE with an encoding layer such as
-C<:encoding(latin1)> or C<:utf8>, you may get an invalid string as a
-result, may leave the FILE positioned between characters in the stream
-and may not be reading the number of bytes from the underlying file
-that you specified.  This behaviour may change without warning in a
-future version of perl.
-
 You cannot call C<input_record_separator()> on a handle, only as a
 static method.  See L<IO::Handle|IO::Handle>.