From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 06:10:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Doc update. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c26c758be9c6b4b88aa5d07ac4631a815b5f2e2f;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Doc update. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12928 --- diff --git a/lib/bytes.pm b/lib/bytes.pm index 3b0268e..cd82abc 100644 --- a/lib/bytes.pm +++ b/lib/bytes.pm @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics =head1 DESCRIPTION -WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is incomplete. -See L for the exact details. - The C pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. C can be used to reverse the effect of C within the current lexical scope. @@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated as a series of bytes. As an example, when Perl sees C<$x = chr(400)>, it encodes the character -in UTF8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, +in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, for instance, C returns C<1>. However, in the scope of the C pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that make up the UTF8 encoding - and C returns C<2>: