X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlunicode.pod;h=a6f748ec6cf4169001a1ff2c52e15c2e3dec4f6b;hb=b3631f69ca17c134df671ddcddb78a6862b927cd;hp=c913047099908c9d158faa0db29c2b5d694cdb04;hpb=2575c402a8f9be55f848bdfb219afbf912c50ac1;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index c913047..a6f748e 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ISO 8859-1 or other eight-bit encodings.) =item C needed to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings -By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's unicode model: +By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's Unicode model: implicit upgrading from byte strings to Unicode strings assumes that they were encoded in I, but Unicode strings are downgraded with UTF-8 encoding. This happens because the first 256