bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than
character semantics
SYNOPSIS
use bytes;
no bytes;
DESCRIPTION
WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is
incomplete. See the perlunicode manpage for the exact
details.
The `use bytes' pragma disables character semantics for
the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. `no
bytes' can be used to reverse the effect of `use bytes'
within the current lexical scope.
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).
To understand the implications and differences between
character semantics and byte semantics, see the perluni
code manpage.
SEE ALSO
the perlunicode manpage, the utf8 manpage
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