From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:48:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Additional note on the encoding example: one cannot
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Additional note on the encoding example: one cannot
convert string constants in-place.

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diff --git a/ext/Encode/Encode.pm b/ext/Encode/Encode.pm
index 3792324..9bdc041 100644
--- a/ext/Encode/Encode.pm
+++ b/ext/Encode/Encode.pm
@@ -537,6 +537,9 @@ and to convert it back:
 
 	from_to($data, "utf-8", "iso-8859-1");
 
+Note that because the conversion happens in place, the data to be
+converted cannot be a string constant, it must be a scalar variable.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Handling Malformed Data