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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-02-05 11:30:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-02-05 11:44:29 -0700 |
| commit | 0c8d0e83aeda5c8f4d2b739cf7288a43432b702c (patch) | |
| tree | b004ec20c54193129c2cf4dd32715a1df4bb1d57 | |
| parent | 30d8090de81085bd3dff00c83a7ab6d3ff8dfc8d (diff) | |
| download | perl-0c8d0e83aeda5c8f4d2b739cf7288a43432b702c.tar.gz | |
Docs for new Turkic UTF-8 locale support
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perllocale.pod | 11 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 36f0652dd9..8d33af6a2a 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section. [ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ] +=head2 Turkic UTF-8 locales are now seamlessly supported + +Turkic languages have different casing rules than other languages for +the characters C<"i"> and C<"I">. The uppercase of C<"i"> is LATIN +CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE (U+0130); and the lowercase of C<"I"> is LATIN +SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I (U+0131). Unicode furnishes alternate casing +rules for use with Turkic languages. Previously, Perl ignored these, +but now, it uses them when it detects that it is operating under a +Turkic UTF-8 locale. + =head1 Security XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index 63f8947f96..e2a73e8484 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -40,9 +40,14 @@ Unicode, encoded in UTF-8. Starting in v5.20, Perl fully supports UTF-8 locales, except for sorting and string comparisons like C<lt> and C<ge>. Starting in v5.26, Perl can handle these reasonably as well, depending on the platform's implementation. However, for earlier -releases or for better control, use L<Unicode::Collate>. Perl continues to -support the old non UTF-8 locales as well. There are currently no UTF-8 -locales for EBCDIC platforms. +releases or for better control, use L<Unicode::Collate>. There are +actually two slightly different types of UTF-8 locales: one for Turkic +languages and one for everything else. Starting in Perl v5.30, Perl +seamlessly handles both types; previously only the non-Turkic one was +supported. + +Perl continues to support the old non UTF-8 locales as well. There are +currently no UTF-8 locales for EBCDIC platforms. (Unicode is also creating C<CLDR>, the "Common Locale Data Repository", L<http://cldr.unicode.org/> which includes more types of information than |