=item *
-If your environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, LANGUAGE) look
-like you want to use UTF-8 (any of the the variables match C</utf-?8/i>),
-your STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR handles and the default open layer
-(see L<open>) are marked as UTF-8. (This feature, like other new
-features that combine Unicode and I/O, work only if you are using
-PerlIO, but that's the default.)
+If your environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG) look like you
+want to use UTF-8 (any of the the variables match C</utf-?8/i>), your
+STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR handles and the default open layer (see L<open>)
+are marked as UTF-8. (This feature, like other new features that
+combine Unicode and I/O, work only if you are using PerlIO, but that's
+the default.)
Note that after this Perl really does assume that everything is UTF-8:
for example if some input handle is not, Perl will probably very soon