Fix and update Perl_grok_* docs.

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

diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index 46ea682..23bee6e 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ is needed.>  See L<utf8>.
 You can also use the C<encoding> pragma to change the default encoding
 of the data in your script; see L<encoding>.
 
+=item BOM-marked scripts and UTF-16 scripts autodetected
+
+If a Perl script begins marked with the Unicode BOM (UTF-16LE, UTF16-BE,
+or UTF-8), or if the script looks like non-BOM-marked UTF-16 of either
+endianness, Perl will correctly read in the script as Unicode.
+(BOMless UTF-8 cannot be effectively recognized or differentiated from
+ISO 8859-1 or other eight-bit encodings.)
+
 =item C<use encoding> needed to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings
 
 By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's unicode model: