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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-01-17 08:42:04 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-01-17 08:42:04 +0000
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a few doc typos
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ larger than 255. Presuming you use a Unicode editor to edit your
program, these will typically occur directly within the literal strings
as UTF-8 characters, but you can also specify a particular character
with an extension of the C<\x> notation. UTF-8 characters are
-specified by putting the hexidecimal code within curlies after the
+specified by putting the hexadecimal code within curlies after the
C<\x>. For instance, a Unicode smiley face is C<\x{263A}>. A
character in the Latin-1 range (128..255) should be written C<\x{ab}>
rather than C<\xab>, since the former will turn into a two-byte UTF-8