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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 25bf159867..daeb6be9ff 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -5626,7 +5626,7 @@ for a return value for 0 to decide whether you're done.
Note that if the filehandle has been marked as C<:utf8> Unicode
characters are read instead of bytes (the LENGTH, OFFSET, and the
-return value of sysread() are in UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters).
+return value of sysread() are in Unicode characters).
The C<:encoding(...)> layer implicitly introduces the C<:utf8> layer.
See L</binmode>, L</open>, and the C<open> pragma, L<open>.