Unknown discipline ':utf8' w/ maint perl w/o perlio

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlpod.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlpod.pod b/pod/perlpod.pod
index 732cdfd..955d706 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlpod.pod
+++ b/pod/perlpod.pod
@@ -269,6 +269,23 @@ to signal that the text is not raw data, but instead I<is> Pod text
 normal formatting (e.g., may not be a normal-use paragraph, but might
 be for formatting as a footnote).
 
+=item C<=encoding I<encodingname>>
+
+This command is used for declaring the encoding of a document.  Most
+users won't need this; but if your encoding isn't US-ASCII or Latin-1,
+then put a C<=encoding I<encodingname>> command early in the document so
+that pod formatters will know how to decode the document.  For
+I<encodingname>, use a name recognized by the L<Encode::Supported>
+module.  Examples:
+
+  =encoding utf8
+
+  =encoding koi8-r
+  
+  =encoding ShiftJIS
+  
+  =encoding big5
+
 =back
 
 And don't forget, when using any command, that the command lasts up