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author | Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org> | 2019-05-15 07:27:48 +0300 |
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committer | Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org> | 2019-05-15 07:27:48 +0300 |
commit | f431d5039c643d761599d2a06aa209d0b61c480e (patch) | |
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parent | 757bce75b9d613dcafe0489032f1ba5316b89b93 (diff) | |
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Revert "[perldelta] Merge Unicode 11.0, 12.0, and 12.1"
This reverts commit d4c6f1162051dc6f5ddb49bb9598500047458e03.
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 32 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 6d5dfaedbe..91eb006853 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -19,19 +19,9 @@ L<[perl #133788]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133788>. =head1 Core Enhancements -=head2 Perl now supports draft Unicode 12.1 - -For details on Unicode 12.0, see -L<https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/>. - -Because of a change in Unicode release cycles, Perl jumps from Unicode -10.0 in Perl 5.28 to Unicode 12.1 in Perl 5.30. +=head2 Unicode 11.0 is supported -Unicode 12.1 differs from 12.0 only in the addition of a single -character, that for the new Japanese era name. - -For details on Unicode 11.0, see -L<https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/>. +For details, see L<https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/>. The Word_Break property, as in past Perl releases, remains tailored to behave more in line with expectations of Perl users. This means that @@ -50,8 +40,10 @@ Georgian are finding their text more or less illegible. It is being suggested that implementations delay their adoption of this portion of 11.0. -This has been kept in Perl for the release cycle of 5.30 to allow feedback -from Georgian users. It is now considered permanent in 5.30. +But since the next stable release of Perl is almost a year away, this +aspect of 11.0 is being left in, with the option to back it out if +things haven't improved by that time, or if we get too many complaints +about the development release being unusable for Georgian users. =head2 The upper limit C<"n"> specifiable in a regular expression quantifier of the form C<"{m,n}"> has been doubled to 65534 @@ -60,6 +52,18 @@ The meaning of an unbounded upper quantifier C<"{m,}"> remains unchanged. It matches 2**31 - 1 times on most platforms, and more on ones where a C language short variable is more than 4 bytes long. +=head2 Unicode 12.0 is supported + +For details, see L<https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/>. + +Because of a change in Unicode release cycles, Perl jumps from Unicode +10.0 in Perl 5.28 to Unicode 12.0 in Perl 5.30. + +=head2 Perl now supports draft Unicode 12.1 + +Unicode 12.1 differs from 12.0 only in the addition of a single +character, that for the new Japanese era name. + =head2 Wildcards in Unicode property value specifications are now partially supported |