From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:46:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document some of the known EBCDIC problems with Storable.
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Document some of the known EBCDIC problems with Storable.
(There is more, but need to do more tests.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16609
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diff --git a/ext/Storable/Storable.pm b/ext/Storable/Storable.pm
index 664f6e7..0224795 100644
--- a/ext/Storable/Storable.pm
+++ b/ext/Storable/Storable.pm
@@ -894,6 +894,11 @@ C<Storable::drop_utf8> is a blunt tool.  There is no facility either to
 return B<all> strings as utf8 sequences, or to attempt to convert utf8
 data back to 8 bit and C<croak()> if the conversion fails.
 
+In EBCDIC platforms, restoring restricted hashes (a new perl 5.8
+feature) does not work (the contents of the hashes are restored 
+but the read-onlyness of either the whole hash or particular
+elements is lost).
+
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