From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:25:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Doc tweaks.
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Doc tweaks.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12789
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diff --git a/lib/encoding.pm b/lib/encoding.pm
index e758687..be0fd73 100644
--- a/lib/encoding.pm
+++ b/lib/encoding.pm
@@ -23,13 +23,16 @@ encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into Unicode
 
     use encoding "iso 8859-7";
 
+    # The \xDF of ISO 8859-7 is \x{3af} in Unicode.
+
     $a = "\xDF";
     $b = "\x{100}";
 
+    printf "%#x\n", ord($a); # will print 0x3af, not 0xdf
+
     $c = $a . $b;
 
     # $c will be "\x{3af}\x{100}", not "\x{df}\x{100}".
-    # The \xDF of ISO 8859-7 is \x{3af} in Unicode.
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -40,6 +43,10 @@ encoding pragma you can change this default.
 The pragma is a per script, not a per block lexical.  Only the last
 C<use encoding> matters, and it affects B<the whole script>.
 
+If no encoding is specified, the environment variable L<PERL_ENCODING>
+is consulted.  If no encoding can be found, C<Unknown encoding '...'>
+error will be thrown.
+
 =head1 FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
 
 The C<\x..> and C<\0...> in regular expressions are not
@@ -56,7 +63,7 @@ You should not need C<use utf8> for anything else these days
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<perlunicode>
+L<perlunicode>, L<encode>
 
 =cut