in future we would like to standardize on the UTF-8 encoding for
source text.
+B<Do not use this pragma for anything else than telling Perl that your
+script is written in UTF-8.> The utility functions described below are
+useful for their own purposes, but they are not really part of the
+"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
in the source. When UTF-8 becomes the standard source format, this
The following functions are defined in the C<utf8::> package by the
Perl core. You do not need to say C<use utf8> to use these and in fact
-you should not unless you really want to have UTF-8 source code.
+you should not say that unless you really want to have UTF-8 source code.
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