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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2013-02-07 21:38:59 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2013-02-15 14:59:31 -0700
commit12cf36fe17425a75fffba24e34c850767de584d0 (patch)
tree56429b4e1caf8646222fdafc248e72be344d01a6 /lib
parent979b41683ac23354380b13793bf375dfe7d73ce2 (diff)
downloadperl-12cf36fe17425a75fffba24e34c850767de584d0.tar.gz
lib/Unicode/UCD.pm: Clarify pod
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-rw-r--r--lib/Unicode/UCD.pm5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Unicode/UCD.pm b/lib/Unicode/UCD.pm
index 414acf7701..2ec57ad4be 100644
--- a/lib/Unicode/UCD.pm
+++ b/lib/Unicode/UCD.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use warnings;
no warnings 'surrogate'; # surrogates can be inputs to this
use charnames ();
-our $VERSION = '0.48';
+our $VERSION = '0.49';
require Exporter;
@@ -3540,7 +3540,8 @@ sub UnicodeVersion {
The difference between a block and a script is that scripts are closer
to the linguistic notion of a set of code points required to present
languages, while block is more of an artifact of the Unicode code point
-numbering and separation into blocks of (mostly) 256 code points.
+numbering and separation into blocks of consecutive code points (so far the
+size of a block is some multiple of 16, like 128 or 256).
For example the Latin B<script> is spread over several B<blocks>, such
as C<Basic Latin>, C<Latin 1 Supplement>, C<Latin Extended-A>, and