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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-02-25 12:25:04 -0700
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-02-28 10:15:19 -1000
commitbee80e934506e8f08eff95006b7ded82be9dd431 (patch)
tree33abc25a8144ca206cf0089bd3a87d5f13ed298e /lib/charnames.pm
parentdf225385efadf8ebc97affe35811344361ca9090 (diff)
downloadperl-bee80e934506e8f08eff95006b7ded82be9dd431.tar.gz
Update documentation
List known bugs, mention new meaning of \N
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@@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ brace-enclosed quantifier (see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>). For example
C<\N{123}> means to match 123 non-newline characters, and is not treated as an
alias. Aliases are discouraged from beginning with anything other than an
alphabetic character and from containing anything other than alphanumerics,
-spaces, dashes, colons, parentheses, and underscores.
+spaces, dashes, colons, parentheses, and underscores. Currently they must be
+ASCII.
=head2 Anonymous hashes
@@ -561,6 +562,8 @@ otherwise. It is planned to change this to always return an ord.
None of the functions work on almost all the Hangul syllable and CJK Unicode
characters that have their code points as part of their names.
+Names must be ASCII characters only.
+
Unicode standard named sequences are not recognized, such as
C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON AND GRAVE>
(which should mean C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON> with an additional