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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2016-03-17 20:57:48 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2016-03-17 21:31:03 -0600
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perlapi: Further clarification for term "Latin1"
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@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ The non-ASCII characters below 256 can have various meanings, depending on
various things. (See, most notably, L<perllocale>.) But usually the whole
range can be referred to as ISO-8859-1. Often, the term "Latin-1" (or
"Latin1") is used as an equivalent for ISO-8859-1. But some people treat
-"Latin1" as referring just to the characters in the range 160 through 255.
+"Latin1" as referring just to the characters in the range 128 through 255, or
+somethimes from 160 through 255.
This documentation uses "Latin1" and "Latin-1" to refer to all 256 characters.
Note that Perl can be compiled and run under either ASCII or EBCDIC (See