X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2Fbytes.pm;h=cd82abc75b5b360d2b13c77dee26444dd41394c6;hb=6bcc4512882cbfb9a802c28116e3f7a01455c5f8;hp=3b0268e644747092e5bf8d0e287f7f396f202149;hpb=0e06870bf080a38cda51c06c6612359afc2334e1;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/lib/bytes.pm b/lib/bytes.pm index 3b0268e..cd82abc 100644 --- a/lib/bytes.pm +++ b/lib/bytes.pm @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics =head1 DESCRIPTION -WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is incomplete. -See L for the exact details. - The C pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. C can be used to reverse the effect of C within the current lexical scope. @@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated as a series of bytes. As an example, when Perl sees C<$x = chr(400)>, it encodes the character -in UTF8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, +in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, for instance, C returns C<1>. However, in the scope of the C pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that make up the UTF8 encoding - and C returns C<2>: