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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-01-14 09:55:16 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-01-14 09:55:16 +0000
commitcdd94ca776dceea28cef3714a8bc6d873614b2bf (patch)
tree0d6d72977f74bec26e64398b3bddc8f959ed0751 /pod
parentfb622db0657a53699cb72fa7e5cdf67e58366454 (diff)
downloadperl-cdd94ca776dceea28cef3714a8bc6d873614b2bf.tar.gz
Improve documentation for sv_catpvf, to note that pattern's UTF-8ness
is taken from the SV's UTF-8ness p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23800
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlapi.pod b/pod/perlapi.pod
index 39390985e0..a1ddb13f06 100644
--- a/pod/perlapi.pod
+++ b/pod/perlapi.pod
@@ -3949,7 +3949,8 @@ output to an SV. If the appended data contains "wide" characters
(including, but not limited to, SVs with a UTF-8 PV formatted with %s,
and characters >255 formatted with %c), the original SV might get
upgraded to UTF-8. Handles 'get' magic, but not 'set' magic. See
-C<sv_catpvf_mg>.
+C<sv_catpvf_mg>. If the original SV was UTF-8, the pattern should be
+valid UTF-8; if the original SV was bytes, the pattern should be too.
void sv_catpvf(SV* sv, const char* pat, ...)