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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index 21f0fa7600..3a2346004c 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -172,13 +172,15 @@ To output UTF-8, use the C<:utf8> output layer. Prepending to this sample program ensures that the output is completely UTF-8, and removes the program's warning. -If your locale environment variables (C<LANGUAGE>, C<LC_ALL>, -C<LC_CTYPE>, C<LANG>) contain the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8', -regardless of case, then the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, -and STDERR and of B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8. Note that -this means that Perl expects other software to work, too: if Perl has -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 +If your locale environment variables (C<LC_ALL>, C<LC_CTYPE>, C<LANG>) +contain the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8' (matched case-insensitively) +B<and> you enable using UTF-8 either by using the C<-C> command line +switch or by setting the PERL_UTF8_LOCALE environment variable to +a true value, then the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, and +STDERR, and of B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8. Note that this +means that Perl expects other software to work, too: if Perl has 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 |