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- use bytes;
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- <P>WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is incomplete.
- See <A HREF="../lib/Pod/perlunicode.html">the perlunicode manpage</A> for the exact details.</P>
- <P>The <CODE>use bytes</CODE> pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the
- lexical scope in which it appears. <CODE>no bytes</CODE> can be used to reverse
- the effect of <CODE>use bytes</CODE> within the current lexical scope.</P>
- <P>Perl normally assumes character semantics in the presence of
- character data (i.e. data that has come from a source that has
- been marked as being of a particular character encoding).</P>
- <P>To understand the implications and differences between character
- semantics and byte semantics, see <A HREF="../lib/Pod/perlunicode.html">the perlunicode manpage</A>.</P>
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- <P><A HREF="../lib/Pod/perlunicode.html">the perlunicode manpage</A>, <A HREF="../lib/utf8.html">the utf8 manpage</A></P>
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