Change 13539 by jhi@alpha on 2001/12/08 18:28:02
Note that some of the Unicode features are
dependent on perlio.
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/pod/perluniintro.pod#7 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perluniintro.pod#7 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perluniintro.pod
--- perl/pod/perluniintro.pod.~1~ Sat Dec 8 11:45:05 2001
+++ perl/pod/perluniintro.pod Sat Dec 8 11:45:05 2001
@@ -345,6 +345,11 @@
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>.
+
=head2 Displaying Unicode As Text
Sometimes you might want to display Perl scalars containing Unicode as
End of Patch.
