From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 04:24:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Explain the 'Wide character in print' a bit more.
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Explain the 'Wide character in print' a bit more.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20608
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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 30ea1ff..2d29e70 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -4467,9 +4467,12 @@ So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.
 =item Wide character in %s
 
 (W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
-one.  This warning is by default on for I/O (like print) but can be
-turned off by C<no warnings 'utf8';>.  You are supposed to explicitly
-mark the filehandle with an encoding, see L<open> and L<perlfunc/binmode>.
+one.  This warning is by default on for I/O (like print).  The easiest
+way to quiet this warning is simply to add the C<:utf8> layer to the
+output, e.g. C<binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'>.  Another way to turn off the
+warning is to add C<no warnings 'utf8';> but that is often closer to
+cheating.  In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the
+filehandle with an encoding, see L<open> and L<perlfunc/binmode>.
 
 =item Within []-length '%c' not allowed