1locale(3)             User Contributed Perl Documentation            locale(3)
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NAME

6       PerlIO::locale - PerlIO layer to use the encoding of the current locale
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VERSION

9       0.07
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SYNOPSIS

12           use PerlIO::locale;
13           open my $filehandle, '<:locale', $filename or die $!;
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DESCRIPTION

16       This is mostly a per-filehandle version of the "open" pragma, when used
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21       The encoding for the opened file will be set to the encoding
22       corresponding to the locale currently in effect, if perl can guess it.
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AUTHOR

25       Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 Rafael Garcia-Suarez
26       <rgs@consttype.org>, rewritten by Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
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LICENSE

29       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
30       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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SOURCE

33       A git repository for the sources is at
34       <https://github.com/rgs/PerlIO-locale>.
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SEE ALSO

37       •   open
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39       •   PerlIO::encoding
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45perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-21                         locale(3)