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diff --git a/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod index d14f53247e..6ef6dc66d5 100644 --- a/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod +++ b/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod @@ -1972,9 +1972,14 @@ Used with C<eq> or C<cmp> as an alternative to C<L</strcoll>>. Not really needed since Perl can do this transparently, see L<perllocale>. -Beware that in a UTF-8 locale, anything you pass to this function must -be in UTF-8; and when not in a UTF-8 locale, anything passed must not be -UTF-8 encoded. +Unlike the libc C<strxfrm>, this allows NUL characters in the input +C<$src>. + +It doesn't make sense for a string to be encoded in one locale (say, +ISO-8859-6, Arabic) and to collate it based on another (like ISO-8859-7, +Greek). Perl assumes that the current C<LC_CTYPE> locale correctly +represents the encoding of C<$src>, and ignores the value of +C<LC_COLLATE>. =item C<sysconf> |