=item ${^ENCODING}
-The encoding used to interpret native eight-bit encodings to Unicode,
-see L<encode>. An opaque C<Encode::XS> object.
+The I<object reference> to the Encode object that is used to convert
+the source code to Unicode. Thanks to this variable your perl script
+does not have to be written in UTF-8. Default is I<undef>. The direct
+manipulation of this variable is highly discouraged. See L<encoding>
+for more details.
=item $OS_ERROR
Each element of C<%!> has a true value only if C<$!> is set to that
value. For example, C<$!{ENOENT}> is true if and only if the current
-value of C<$!> is C<ENOENT>; that is, if the mot recent error was "No
-such file or directory". To check if a particular key is meaningful
-on your system, use C<exists $!{the_key}>; for a list of legal keys,
-use C<keys %!>. See L<Errno> for more information.
+value of C<$!> is C<ENOENT>; that is, if the most recent error was
+"No such file or directory" (or its moral equivalent: not all operating
+systems give that exact error, and certainly not all languages).
+To check if a particular key is meaningful on your system, use
+C<exists $!{the_key}>; for a list of legal keys, use C<keys %!>.
+See L<Errno> for more information, and also see above for the
+validity of C<$!>.
=item $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR
in the scope of C<use English>. For that reason, saying C<use
English> in libraries is strongly discouraged. See the
Devel::SawAmpersand module documentation from CPAN
-(http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/)
+( http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/ )
for more information.
Having to even think about the C<$^S> variable in your exception