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diff --git a/lib/open.pm b/lib/open.pm index a5c337ad81..aab99fb713 100644 --- a/lib/open.pm +++ b/lib/open.pm @@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ and these use open ':encoding(iso-8859-7)'; use open IO => ':encoding(iso-8859-7)'; +The matching of encoding names is loose: case does not matter, and +many encodings have several aliases. See L<Encode::Supported> for +details and the list of supported locales. + +Note that C<:utf8> discipline must always be specified exactly like +that, it is not subject to the loose matching of encoding names. + When open() is given an explicit list of layers they are appended to the list declared using this pragma. |