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authorDan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>2002-03-31 11:03:36 +0900
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-03-30 16:03:12 +0000
commitc315be67fe6a56f050de085e127cafd464315758 (patch)
treecbf5009cc048fa5e9d7181cc0ef8fb149d383aef /pod
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[Patch] pod/perlvar.pod
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@@ -663,8 +663,11 @@ Also see L<Error Indicators>.
=item ${^ENCODING}
-The encoding used to interpret native eight-bit encodings to Unicode,
-see L<encode>. An opaque C<Encode::XS> object.
+The I<object reference> to Encode object used to convert the source
+code to Unicode. Thanks to this variable your perl script does not
+have to be written in UTF-8. Default is I<undef>. The direct
+manipulation of this variable is highly discouraged. see L<encoding>
+for more details.
=item $OS_ERROR