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| author | David Leadbeater <dgl@dgl.cx> | 2011-03-25 10:20:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-03-25 10:27:20 -0700 |
| commit | 7e0302decdb646266b86ba7a59b6b2f697ff275d (patch) | |
| tree | 25e885b615cfdbd24e9847207457baf8bf4f580e | |
| parent | 5da08ab0c45e6850ad1ad3d66f3796f19bf0eaae (diff) | |
| download | perl-7e0302decdb646266b86ba7a59b6b2f697ff275d.tar.gz | |
[perl #86992] perlretut: Reference the Unicode standard for data files
Since e4ed29fb stopped installing NamesList.txt the documentation can no longer
suggest use of it, instead reference the Unicode standard in use by this
version of perl.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlretut.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index 0872e0a441..10d344c66f 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -1923,9 +1923,8 @@ One can also use short names or restrict names to a certain alphabet: use charnames qw(greek); print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma\n"; -A list of full names is found in the file NamesList.txt in the -lib/perl5/X.X.X/unicore directory (where X.X.X is the perl -version number as it is installed on your system). +A list of full names can be found in F<NamesList.txt> in the Unicode standard +(available at L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/>). The answer to requirement 2), as of 5.6.0, is that a regexp uses Unicode characters. Internally, this is encoded to bytes using either UTF-8 or a |