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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-03-10 20:14:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-03-11 14:49:26 -0700 |
| commit | 14d32fa99f736009ef63a8b17d164cd8f6e967d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c9bf8f5d6ef73d9435f4b6e2e41c6d807af5ec5 /autodoc.pl | |
| parent | a28fff51204184c3aae3c8cb9e3a8009eae936d2 (diff) | |
| download | perl-14d32fa99f736009ef63a8b17d164cd8f6e967d9.tar.gz | |
perlapi: Clarify Latin1 and ISO-8859-1
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diff --git a/autodoc.pl b/autodoc.pl index 9d41dda234..d386785c7a 100644 --- a/autodoc.pl +++ b/autodoc.pl @@ -412,6 +412,13 @@ whose ordinal numbers are in the range 0 - 127). And documentation and comments may still use the term ASCII, when sometimes in fact the entire range from 0 - 255 is meant. +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. +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 L<perlebcdic>). Most of the documentation (and even comments in the code) ignore the EBCDIC possibility. |