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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 67e8c1e762..3e2c57a5af 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -542,7 +542,10 @@ functionality has moved from "discipline" to "layer". All documentation of this version of Perl therefore refers to "layers" rather than to "disciplines". Now back to the regularly scheduled documentation...> -To mark FILEHANDLE as UTF-8, use C<:utf8>. +To mark FILEHANDLE as UTF-8, use C<:utf8> or C<:encoding(utf8)>. +C<:utf8> just marks the data as UTF-8 without further checking, +while C<:encoding(utf8)> checks the data for actually being valid +UTF-8. More details can be found in L<PerlIO::encoding>. In general, binmode() should be called after open() but before any I/O is done on the filehandle. Calling binmode() will normally flush any |