encoding.pm doesn't give any details about ${^ENCODING},

so don't mention it in perlvar

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31353

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index f849ca9..0091e9b 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -764,8 +764,7 @@ X<$^ENCODING>
 The I<object reference> to the Encode object that is used to convert
 the source code to Unicode.  Thanks to this variable your perl script
 does not have to be written in UTF-8.  Default is I<undef>.  The direct
-manipulation of this variable is highly discouraged.  See L<encoding>
-for more details.
+manipulation of this variable is highly discouraged.
 
 =item $OS_ERROR