=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 $OS_ERROR
in the scope of C<use English>. For that reason, saying C<use
English> in libraries is strongly discouraged. See the
Devel::SawAmpersand module documentation from CPAN
-(http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/)
+( http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/ )
for more information.
Having to even think about the C<$^S> variable in your exception