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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-12-03 21:37:48 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-12-14 10:56:56 -0700
commitd9f23c728997f4a36eaaba74c9acd1460dc23593 (patch)
treefe4212ff78a564c628805bd3f53fabfd74d0c8d8 /lib/charnames.pm
parent123148a1e2fb71a4d149331f6e5f0303fcbbfbd1 (diff)
downloadperl-d9f23c728997f4a36eaaba74c9acd1460dc23593.tar.gz
charnames and perlapi: pod nits
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-rw-r--r--lib/charnames.pm7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/charnames.pm b/lib/charnames.pm
index 682f8b7139..b920c4a3ba 100644
--- a/lib/charnames.pm
+++ b/lib/charnames.pm
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ this pragma. The character it inserts is the one whose code point
the Unicode (white background, black foreground) smiley face; it doesn't
require this pragma, whereas the equivalent, C<"\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}">
does.
-Also, C<\N{I<...>}> can mean a regex quantifier instead of a character
+Also note, C<\N{I<...>}> can mean a regex quantifier instead of a character
name, when the I<...> is a number (or comma separated pair of numbers
(see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>), and is not related to this pragma.
@@ -1316,7 +1316,8 @@ there are no official Unicode names but you can use instead the ISO 6429
names (LINE FEED, ESCAPE, and so forth, and their abbreviations, LF,
ESC, ...). In Unicode 3.2 (as of Perl 5.8) some naming changes took
place, and ISO 6429 was updated, see L</ALIASES>. Since Unicode 6.0, it
-is deprecated to use C<BELL>. Instead use C<ALERT> (but C<BEL> works).
+is deprecated to use C<BELL>. Instead use C<ALERT> (but C<BEL> will continue
+to work).
If the input name is unknown, C<\N{NAME}> raises a warning and
substitutes the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD).
@@ -1550,7 +1551,7 @@ hexadecimal integer. A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains
non-decimal hex digits; otherwise it will be interpreted as decimal.
-Notice that the name returned for of U+FEFF is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
+Notice that the name returned for U+FEFF is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
SPACE", not "BYTE ORDER MARK".
=head1 charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)