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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 72968f1b80..ea1f601a80 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1348,6 +1348,13 @@ want to read in record mode is probably unusable in line mode.) Non-VMS systems do normal I/O, so it's safe to mix record and non-record reads of a file. +If you perform a record read on a FILE with an encoding layer such as +C<:encoding(latin1)> or C<:utf8>, you may get an invalid string as a +result, may leave the FILE positioned between characters in the stream +and may not be reading the number of bytes from the underlying file +that you specified. This behaviour may change without warning in a +future version of perl. + See also L<perlport/"Newlines">. Also see L</$.>. Mnemonic: / delimits line boundaries when quoting poetry. |