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Are you sure? Did you see Zefram's reply? On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:58 PM, l.mai@web.de via RT < perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Tue Jul 12 02:56:05 2016, niczero@wow.com wrote: > > The POD for sysseek [perldoc -f sysseek] appears to me to have an > > error. In the second stanza it says > > > > Note the in bytes: even if the filehandle has been set to operate > > on characters (for example by using the ":encoding(utf8)" I/O > > layer), "tell" will return byte offsets, not character offsets > > (because implementing that would render "sysseek" unacceptably > > slow). > > > > Where it says "tell" I think it should say "sysseek". I suspect > > it shouldn't mention 'tell' at all, other than in the following > > stanza. > > I agree. Fixed in 6d451ee1. > > --- > via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128607 >Thread Previous | Thread Next