From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:03:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document chomp's travels in the wonderful world of use encoding;
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Document chomp's travels in the wonderful world of use encoding;

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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 54b08c8..d7912b1 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -661,6 +661,10 @@ You can actually chomp anything that's an lvalue, including an assignment:
 If you chomp a list, each element is chomped, and the total number of
 characters removed is returned.
 
+If the C<encoding> pragma is in scope then the lengths returned are
+calculated from the length of C<$/> in Unicode characters, which is not
+always the same as the length of C<$/> in the native encoding.
+
 Note that parentheses are necessary when you're chomping anything
 that is not a simple variable.  This is because C<chomp $cwd = `pwd`;>
 is interpreted as C<(chomp $cwd) = `pwd`;>, rather than as