In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/fe43a9cc030d741126b22f2730889e69452f8988?hp=7a928d916facc702267dd7b5a9cf36135ae25009>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit fe43a9cc030d741126b22f2730889e69452f8988 Author: Tony Cook <[email protected]> Date: Tue May 17 11:47:07 2016 +1000 (perl #127780) point backtick users at the open pragma ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perlop.pod | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 9b1319a..6bca9f7 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -2316,6 +2316,12 @@ failure modes by inspecting C<$?> like this: printf "child exited with value %d\n", $? >> 8; } +Use the L<open> pragma to control the I/O layers used when reading the +output of the command, for example: + + use open IN => ":encoding(UTF-8)"; + my $x = `cmd-producing-utf-8`; + See L</"I/O Operators"> for more discussion. =item C<qw/I<STRING>/> -- Perl5 Master Repository
