On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:04:25AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:45:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) wrote:
> 
> > +"enable Unicode" (whatever that would mean).  You can use C<"0"> to
> > +"disable Unicode", though (or alternatively C<delete $ENV{PERL_UNICODE}>).
> > +See the description of the C<-C> switch for more information.
> 
> delete $ENV{PERL_UNICODE}? Does that work at runtime, i.e. is that
> envariable queried every time you do I/O so that runtime changes are
> reflected in the behaviour? Or do you have to do that in a BEGIN block?
> Or did you mean "unset PERL_UNICODE" or the equivalent in other shells?

Good point.  One has to do that before calling Perl.

> Cheers,
> Philip

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