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diff --git a/doc/perltest.txt b/doc/perltest.txt index 3785bdd..37e0012 100644 --- a/doc/perltest.txt +++ b/doc/perltest.txt @@ -28,13 +28,15 @@ the initial identifying banner. The perltest.pl script can also test UTF-8 features. It recognizes the special modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput4 and testinput6 files can be fed to perltest to run compatible UTF-8 tests. -However, it is necessary to add "use utf8;" to the script to make this work -correctly. +However, it is necessary to add "use utf8; require Encode" to the script to +make this work correctly. I have not managed to find a way to handle this +automatically. The other testinput files are not suitable for feeding to perltest.pl, since they make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that pcretest -uses to test some features of PCRE. Some of these files also contains malformed -regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them correctly. +uses to test certain features of PCRE. Some of these files also contain +malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them +correctly. Philip Hazel January 2012 |