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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2013-06-18 13:08:32 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2013-06-18 14:10:44 -0600 |
| commit | a2c659f2396d62ae8cc2144386afe0dfba0bf87f (patch) | |
| tree | 7984402ee38e6019a3a8b750f4dc89ac971c931a | |
| parent | 2b7bd0cd8c00be3c9bbbd23732b6719cd9a85768 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a2c659f2396d62ae8cc2144386afe0dfba0bf87f.tar.gz | |
perldelta for locale fixes
This is the delta for 68e8f474bc686a86c064b695b9c7400313d7af65,
and b127e37e51c21b0a36755dcd19811be931a03d83.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 2c8a28863f..4a9b9b9193 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: As part of this series of fixes it was necessary to change the API of Perl_re_intuit_start(). See L</Internal Changes> for more. +=head2 Locale decimal point character no longer leaks outside of S<C<use locale>> scope + +This is actually a bug fix, but some code has come to rely on the bug +being present, so this change is listed here. The current locale that +the program is running under is not supposed to be visible to Perl code +except within the scope of a S<C<use locale>>. However, until now under +certain circumstances, the character used for a decimal point (often a +comma) leaked outside the scope. If your code is affected by this +change, simply add a S<C<use locale>>. + =head1 Deprecations XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here. |