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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-12-03 21:37:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-12-20 22:02:42 -0700 |
| commit | 0bd4278638caf33618355e433372cb94a2853626 (patch) | |
| tree | 840a0ca31b59e6a775a4de80790627856a4b7523 | |
| parent | 95cf23680e00af63884a0f886d7434eb1b930377 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0bd4278638caf33618355e433372cb94a2853626.tar.gz | |
pod nits
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlretut.pod | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlunicode.pod | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index b9b31060a6..b2ba390f21 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -1922,8 +1922,10 @@ 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 can be found in F<NamesList.txt> in the Unicode standard -(available at L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/>). +An index of character names is available on-line from the Unicode +Consortium, L<http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html>; explanatory +material with links to other resources at +L<http://www.unicode.org/standard/where>. The answer to requirement 2) is, as of 5.6.0, that a regexp (mostly) uses Unicode characters. (The "mostly" is for messy backward diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index 0d8bd1ab9f..2529c97523 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ Alternatively, you can use the C<\x{...}> notation for characters 0x100 and above. For characters below 0x100 you may get byte semantics instead of character semantics; see L</The "Unicode Bug">. On EBCDIC machines there is the additional problem that the value for such characters gives the EBCDIC -character rather than the Unicode one. +character rather than the Unicode one, thus it is more portable to use +C<\N{U+...}> instead. Additionally, if you |