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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-06-27 15:33:43 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-07-28 22:15:55 -0600
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Unicode::UCD: Add pod text about old Unicodes
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@@ -4089,6 +4089,15 @@ for its block using C<charblock>).
Note that starting in Unicode 6.1, many of the block names have shorter
synonyms. These are always given in the new style.
+=head2 Use with older Unicode versions
+
+The functions in this module work as well as can be expected when
+used on earlier Unicode versions. But, obviously, they use the available data
+from that Unicode version. For example, if the Unicode version predates the
+definition of the script property (Unicode 3.1), then any function that deals
+with scripts is going to return C<undef> for the script portion of the return
+value.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Jarkko Hietaniemi. Now maintained by perl5 porters.