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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2010-08-25 18:15:34 +0100
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2010-08-25 18:15:34 +0100
commit76591e2b8b8a185dba15ef89f30a05486b039040 (patch)
tree14b5830590e20082c566daeb89d4e8e855d36c9b /lib
parent73ceeaa75ce2e74bd07f17c87291fad84aa2bee8 (diff)
downloadperl-76591e2b8b8a185dba15ef89f30a05486b039040.tar.gz
mktables: Clarify comment output in files
I never understood this comment until it bit me. Based on my new-found experience, I've expanded it.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/unicore/mktables4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/unicore/mktables b/lib/unicore/mktables
index 312e682783..ee4873c9e8 100644
--- a/lib/unicore/mktables
+++ b/lib/unicore/mktables
@@ -5453,7 +5453,9 @@ END
# multiple code points. These do not appear in the main body, but are defined
# in the hash below.
-# The key: UTF-8 _bytes_, the value: UTF-8 (speed hack)
+# Each key is the string of N bytes that together make up the UTF-8 encoding
+# for the code point. (i.e. the same as looking at the code point's UTF-8
+# under "use bytes"). Each value is the UTF-8 of the translation, for speed.
%utf8::ToSpec$name = (
END
$pre_body .= join("\n", @multi_code_point_maps) . "\n);\n";