"Malformed UTF-8 character" was a severe warning, and can now be

also a fatal error (since change #26258)
p4raw-link: @26258 on //depot/perl: 19f6729910f1cd22aa33cc8443fa168b7813bd95

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@26259

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 148d994..e1f6795 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2170,7 +2170,8 @@ when the function is called.
 
 =item Malformed UTF-8 character (%s)
 
-(W utf8) Perl detected something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding rules.
+(S utf8) (F) Perl detected something that didn't comply with UTF-8
+encoding rules.
 
 One possible cause is that you read in data that you thought to be in
 UTF-8 but it wasn't (it was for example legacy 8-bit data).  Another