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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-14 23:47:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-14 23:47:43 +0000 |
| commit | 301a3cda5671e7e40a7f72349d8e1b22ffbeacfa (patch) | |
| tree | bf86137233ccdbbb07b70202a44e48edace843fd /lib/charnames.pm | |
| parent | ba8639421c86ec71757a56d2fabcbfe5474d875d (diff) | |
| download | perl-301a3cda5671e7e40a7f72349d8e1b22ffbeacfa.tar.gz | |
Document and test the C0 and C1.
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diff --git a/lib/charnames.pm b/lib/charnames.pm index 1297a76796..0241534250 100644 --- a/lib/charnames.pm +++ b/lib/charnames.pm @@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ constant used inside double-quoted strings: in other words, you cannot use variables inside the C<\N{...}>. If you want similar run-time functionality, use charnames::vianame(). +For the C0 and C1 control characters (U+0000..U+001F, U+0080..U+009F) +as of Unicode 3.1, there are no official Unicode names but you can +use instead the ISO 6429 names (LINE FEED, ESCAPE, and so forth). +In Unicode 3.2 some naming changes will happen since ISO 6429 has been +updated. Also note that the U+UU80, U+0081, U+0084, and U+0099 +do not have names even in ISO 6429. + =head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS The mechanism of translation of C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not |