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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/bytes.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/bytes.pm | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/bytes.pm b/lib/bytes.pm index 3b0268e644..cd82abc75b 100644 --- a/lib/bytes.pm +++ b/lib/bytes.pm @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics =head1 DESCRIPTION -WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is incomplete. -See L<perlunicode> for the exact details. - The C<use bytes> pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. C<no bytes> can be used to reverse the effect of C<use bytes> within the current lexical scope. @@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated as a series of bytes. As an example, when Perl sees C<$x = chr(400)>, it encodes the character -in UTF8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, +in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, for instance, C<length $x> returns C<1>. However, in the scope of the C<bytes> pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that make up the UTF8 encoding - and C<length $x> returns C<2>: |