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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index a42f8c6962..6df49c8c61 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -663,8 +663,11 @@ Also see L<Error Indicators>. =item ${^ENCODING} -The encoding used to interpret native eight-bit encodings to Unicode, -see L<encode>. An opaque C<Encode::XS> object. +The I<object reference> to Encode object used to convert the source +code to Unicode. Thanks to this variable your perl script does not +have to be written in UTF-8. Default is I<undef>. The direct +manipulation of this variable is highly discouraged. see L<encoding> +for more details. =item $OS_ERROR |