From 3ef6ec9001c8089ebaa0aeefdf6fa0839780776a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:22:35 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] perldelta for 34213185

I considered more detail here, but the discussion in the ticket
covers it.
---
 pod/perldelta.pod | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index b3996e5..02d94b7 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@ L</Selected Bug Fixes> section.
 
 =head1 Incompatible Changes
 
+=head2 readline() with C<$/ = \N> now reads N characters, not N bytes
+
+Previously, when reading from a stream with I/O layers such as
+C<encoding>, the readline() function, otherwise known as the C<< <> >>
+operator, would read I<N> bytes from the top-most layer. [perl #79960]
+
+Now, I<N> characters are read instead.
+
+There is no change in behaviour when reading from streams with no
+extra layers, since bytes map exactly to characters.
+
 XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
 
     There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX
-- 
2.7.4