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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index 0b52afa808..9205fdf77c 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ literal UTF-8 string constant in the program), character semantics apply; otherwise, byte semantics are in effect. To force byte semantics on Unicode data, the C<bytes> pragma should be used. -Notice that if you have a string with byte semantics and you then -add character data into it, the bytes will be upgraded I<as if they -were ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)> (or if in EBCDIC, after a translation -to ISO 8859-1). +Notice that if you concatenate strings with byte semantics and strings +with Unicode character data, the bytes will by default be upgraded +I<as if they were ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)> (or if in EBCDIC, after a +translation to ISO 8859-1). To change this, use the C<encoding> +pragma, see L<encoding>. Under character semantics, many operations that formerly operated on bytes change to operating on characters. For ASCII data this makes no |