Change 13719 by jhi@alpha on 2001/12/16 14:39:34
More documentation for the encoding pragma.
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/lib/encoding.pm#13 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/lib/encoding.pm#13 (text) ====
Index: perl/lib/encoding.pm
--- perl/lib/encoding.pm.~1~ Sun Dec 16 07:45:05 2001
+++ perl/lib/encoding.pm Sun Dec 16 07:45:05 2001
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@
because of the C<\x{100}> on the left. You should not be mixing your
legacy data and Unicode in the same string.
+This pragma also affects encoding of the 0x80..0xFF code point range:
+normally characters in that range are left as eight-bit bytes (unless
+they are combined with characters with code points 0x100 or larger,
+in which case all characters need to become UTF-8 encoded), but if
+the C<encoding> pragma is present, even the 0x80..0xFF range always
+gets UTF-8 encoded.
+
If no encoding is specified, the environment variable L<PERL_ENCODING>
is consulted. If that fails, "latin1" (ISO 8859-1) is assumed. If no
encoding can be found, C<Unknown encoding '...'> error will be thrown.
End of Patch.
