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diff --git a/lib/open.pm b/lib/open.pm
index a5c337a..39e194f 100644
--- a/lib/open.pm
+++ b/lib/open.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package open;
 use warnings;
 use Carp;
-$open::hint_bits = 0x20000;
+$open::hint_bits = 0x20000; # HINT_LOCALIZE_HH
 
 our $VERSION = '1.01';
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ sub _get_locale_encoding {
 	    } elsif ($ENV{LANG} =~ /^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$/) {
 		($country_language, $locale_encoding) = ($1, $2);
 	    }
+	    # LANGUAGE affects only LC_MESSAGES only on glibc
 	} elsif (not $locale_encoding) {
 	    if ($ENV{LC_ALL} =~ /\butf-?8\b/i ||
 		$ENV{LANG}   =~ /\butf-?8\b/i) {
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ sub _get_locale_encoding {
 
 sub import {
     my ($class,@args) = @_;
-    croak("`use open' needs explicit list of disciplines") unless @args;
+    croak("`use open' needs explicit list of PerlIO layers") unless @args;
     my $std;
     $^H |= $open::hint_bits;
     my ($in,$out) = split(/\0/,(${^OPEN} || "\0"), -1);
@@ -94,8 +95,8 @@ sub import {
 		my $target = $layer;		# the layer name itself
 		$target =~ s/^(\w+)\(.+\)$/$1/;	# strip parameters
 
-		unless(PerlIO::Layer::->find($target)) {
-		    warnings::warnif("layer", "Unknown discipline layer '$layer'");
+		unless(PerlIO::Layer::->find($target,1)) {
+		    warnings::warnif("layer", "Unknown PerlIO layer '$target'");
 		}
 	    }
 	    push(@val,":$layer");
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ sub import {
 	    $in = $out = join(' ',@val);
 	}
 	else {
-	    croak "Unknown discipline class '$type'";
+	    croak "Unknown PerlIO layer class '$type'";
 	}
     }
     ${^OPEN} = join("\0",$in,$out) if $in or $out;
@@ -142,11 +143,11 @@ __END__
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
+open - perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-    use open IN  => ":crlf", OUT => ":raw";
+    use open IN  => ":crlf", OUT => ":bytes";
     use open OUT => ':utf8';
     use open IO  => ":encoding(iso-8859-7)";
 
@@ -160,17 +161,17 @@ open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-Full-fledged support for I/O disciplines is now implemented provided
+Full-fledged support for I/O layers is now implemented provided
 Perl is configured to use PerlIO as its IO system (which is now the
 default).
 
 The C<open> pragma serves as one of the interfaces to declare default
-"layers" (aka disciplines) for all I/O.
-
-The C<open> pragma is used to declare one or more default layers for
-I/O operations.  Any open(), readpipe() (aka qx//) and similar
-operators found within the lexical scope of this pragma will use the
-declared defaults.
+"layers" (also known as "disciplines") for all I/O. Any two-argument
+open(), readpipe() (aka qx//) and similar operators found within the
+lexical scope of this pragma will use the declared defaults.
+Three-argument opens are not affected by this pragma since there you
+(can) explicitly specify the layers and are supposed to know what you
+are doing.
 
 With the C<IN> subpragma you can declare the default layers
 of input streams, and with the C<OUT> subpragma you can declare
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ you can control both input and output streams simultaneously.
 
 If you have a legacy encoding, you can use the C<:encoding(...)> tag.
 
-if you want to set your encoding disciplines based on your
+if you want to set your encoding layers based on your
 locale environment variables, you can use the C<:locale> tag.
 For example:
 
@@ -208,6 +209,13 @@ and these
     use open ':encoding(iso-8859-7)';
     use open IO => ':encoding(iso-8859-7)';
 
+The matching of encoding names is loose: case does not matter, and
+many encodings have several aliases.  See L<Encode::Supported> for
+details and the list of supported locales.
+
+Note that C<:utf8> PerlIO layer must always be specified exactly like
+that, it is not subject to the loose matching of encoding names.
+
 When open() is given an explicit list of layers they are appended to
 the list declared using this pragma.
 
@@ -246,22 +254,22 @@ pragma.
 
 =back
 
-If your locale environment variables (LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG)
+If your locale environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG)
 contain the strings 'UTF-8' or 'UTF8' (case-insensitive matching),
 the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and of
 B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8.
 
-Directory handles may also support disciplines in future.
+Directory handles may also support PerlIO layers in the future.
 
 =head1 NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
 
 If Perl is not built to use PerlIO as its IO system then only the two
-pseudo-disciplines ":raw" and ":crlf" are available.
+pseudo-layers C<:bytes> and C<:crlf> are available.
 
-The ":raw" discipline corresponds to "binary mode" and the ":crlf"
-discipline corresponds to "text mode" on platforms that distinguish
+The C<:bytes> layer corresponds to "binary mode" and the C<:crlf>
+layer corresponds to "text mode" on platforms that distinguish
 between the two modes when opening files (which is many DOS-like
-platforms, including Windows).  These two disciplines are no-ops on
+platforms, including Windows).  These two layers are no-ops on
 platforms where binmode() is a no-op, but perform their functions
 everywhere if PerlIO is enabled.