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diff --git a/doc/perltest.txt b/doc/perltest.txt index 6c38ebe..5a40401 100644 --- a/doc/perltest.txt +++ b/doc/perltest.txt @@ -13,11 +13,17 @@ for perltest as well as for pcretest, and the special upper case modifiers such as /A that pcretest recognizes are not used in these files. The output should be identical, apart from the initial identifying banner. +For testing UTF-8 features, an alternative form of perltest, called perltest8, +is supplied. This requires Perl 5.6 or higher. It recognizes the special +modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput5 +file can be fed to perltest8. + The testinput2 and testinput4 files are not suitable for feeding to perltest, since they do make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that pcretest uses to test some features of PCRE. The first of these files also contains malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses -them correctly. +them correctly. Similarly, testinput6 tests UTF-8 features that do not relate +to Perl. Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> -January 2000 +August 2000 |