L<perlunifaq/What is "the UTF8 flag"?>.
Don't use this flag as a marker to distinguish character and binary
-data, that should be decided for each variable when you write your
+data: that should be decided for each variable when you write your
code.
To force unicode semantics in code portable to perl 5.8 and 5.10, call
UTF-8. Will return true if it is well-formed Perl extended UTF-8 and has the
UTF-8 flag
on B<or> if I<$string> is held as bytes (both these states are 'consistent').
-Main reason for this routine is to allow Perl's test suite to check
+The main reason for this routine is to allow Perl's test suite to check
that operations have left strings in a consistent state.
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