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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index c913047099..a6f748ec6c 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ISO 8859-1 or other eight-bit encodings.) =item C<use encoding> needed to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings -By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's unicode model: +By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's Unicode model: implicit upgrading from byte strings to Unicode strings assumes that they were encoded in I<ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)>, but Unicode strings are downgraded with UTF-8 encoding. This happens because the first 256 |