Author: moritz
Date: 2009-07-02 19:42:40 +0200 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009)
New Revision: 27366
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod
Log:
[S32/Str] The return type of Str.encode is as specific as possible
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod 2009-07-02 17:42:33 UTC (rev
27365)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod 2009-07-02 17:42:40 UTC (rev
27366)
@@ -245,7 +245,9 @@
our Buf multi method encode($encoding = $?ENC, $nf = $?NF)
Returns a C<Buf> which represents the original string in the given encoding
-and normal form.
+and normal form. The actual return type is as specific as possible, so
+C<$str.encode('UTF-8')> returns an C<utf8> object,
+C<$str.encode('ISO-8859-1')> a C<buf8>.
=item index
