"pragmatic" effect.
Until UTF-8 becomes the default format for source text, either this
-pragma or the L</encoding> pragma should be used to recognize UTF-8
+pragma or the L<encoding> pragma should be used to recognize UTF-8
in the source. When UTF-8 becomes the standard source format, this
pragma will effectively become a no-op. For convenience in what
follows the term I<UTF-X> is used to refer to UTF-8 on ASCII and ISO
utf8 until the end the block (or file, if at top level) by C<no utf8;>.
If you want to automatically upgrade your 8-bit legacy bytes to UTF-8,
-use the L</encoding> pragma instead of this pragma. For example, if
+use the L<encoding> pragma instead of this pragma. For example, if
you want to implicitly upgrade your ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) bytes to UTF-8
as used in e.g. C<chr()> and C<\x{...}>, try this: