NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

This is mostly a per-filehandle version of the open pragma, when used under the form

use open ':locale';

The encoding for the opened file will be set to the encoding corresponding to the locale currently in effect, if perl can guess it.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2007 Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>. This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

open.