X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FPerlIO.pm;h=c0acdec4a4557a39468d62986262439eb4cd10fc;hb=ff504b36b0f6467f64b463fd17fb34f640855abc;hp=116deb5f35cd816081fd0b96018980e840989352;hpb=a7845df8f6bfd9f3b7e686165ebf73c1549cb163;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/lib/PerlIO.pm b/lib/PerlIO.pm index 116deb5..c0acdec 100644 --- a/lib/PerlIO.pm +++ b/lib/PerlIO.pm @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ The C<:mmap> layer will not exist if platform does not support C. =item :utf8 -Declares that the stream accepts perl's internal encoding of +Declares that the stream accepts perl's I encoding of characters. (Which really is UTF-8 on ASCII machines, but is UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC machines.) This allows any character perl can represent to be read from or written to the stream. The UTF-X encoding