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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index 8222e70a93..1468ae3282 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ been led to believe that STDIN should be UTF-8, but then STDIN coming in from another command is not UTF-8, Perl will complain about the malformed UTF-8. +All features that combine Unicode and I/O also require using the new +PerlIO feature. Almost all Perl 5.8 platforms do use PerlIO, though: +you can see whether yours is by running "perl -V" and looking for +C<useperlio=define>. + =head2 Unicode and EBCDIC Perl 5.8.0 also supports Unicode on EBCDIC platforms. There, @@ -428,9 +433,7 @@ UTF-8 encoded. A C<use open ':utf8'> would have avoided the bug, or explicitly opening also the F<file> for input as UTF-8. B<NOTE>: the C<:utf8> and C<:encoding> features work only if your -Perl has been built with the new "perlio" feature. Almost all -Perl 5.8 platforms do use "perlio", though: you can see whether -yours is by running "perl -V" and looking for C<useperlio=define>. +Perl has been built with the new PerlIO feature. =head2 Displaying Unicode As Text |