Author: allison Date: Tue Jul 15 12:54:30 2008 New Revision: 29495 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod
Log: [pdd] Clarification on literal strings from #parrotsketch meeting. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod Tue Jul 15 12:54:30 2008 @@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ =item "double-quoted string constants" Are delimited by double-quotes (C<">). A C<"> inside a string must be escaped -by C<\>. Only 7-bit ASCII is accepted in string constants; to use characters -outside that range, specify an encoding in the way below. +by C<\>. The default encoding for a double-quoted string constant is 7-bit +ASCII, other character sets and encodings must be marked explicitly using a +charset or encoding flag. =item <<"heredoc", <<'heredoc'
