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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)> | 2010-03-27 22:22:39 -0600 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2010-03-28 15:57:17 +0200 |
| commit | 272d2fccdd8295527af922a2af84ef7205338f65 (patch) | |
| tree | 25f18821e18d25f4e0fc80194aba4c3a0f460d04 | |
| parent | bc7f466f6caacbb2b170e02ff8f127292caea0f4 (diff) | |
| download | perl-272d2fccdd8295527af922a2af84ef7205338f65.tar.gz | |
Note a new thing to check for each new release of Perl
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diff --git a/lib/unicore/README.perl b/lib/unicore/README.perl index 59d66a8669..bbfcc3d694 100644 --- a/lib/unicore/README.perl +++ b/lib/unicore/README.perl @@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ mktables can continue to be used for earlier Unicode versions. When putting out a new Perl release, think about if any of the Deprecated properties should be moved to Suppressed. +perlrecharclass.pod has a list of all the characters that are white space, +which needs to be updated if there are changes. A quick way to check if there +have been changes would be to see if the number of such characters listed in +perluniprops.pod (generated by running mktables) for the property +\p{White_Space} is no longer 26. Further investigation would then be necessary +to classify the new characters as horizontal and vertical. + The code in regexec.c for the \X match construct is intimately tied to the regular expression in UAX #29 (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/). You should see if it has changed, and if so regexec.c should be modified. The |