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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/PerlIO.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/PerlIO.pm | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PerlIO.pm b/lib/PerlIO.pm index 116deb5f35..c0acdec4a4 100644 --- a/lib/PerlIO.pm +++ b/lib/PerlIO.pm @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ The C<:mmap> layer will not exist if platform does not support C<mmap()>. =item :utf8 -Declares that the stream accepts perl's internal encoding of +Declares that the stream accepts perl's I<internal> encoding of characters. (Which really is UTF-8 on ASCII machines, but is UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines.) This allows any character perl can represent to be read from or written to the stream. The UTF-X encoding |