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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2009-12-12 15:57:28 +0100 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2009-12-12 15:57:28 +0100 |
commit | e1e0053fcf33943fcf1a07bba02f04e4a0fdd3ad (patch) | |
tree | 035d5171ccee64df32aadadb8b2bcd2ed28439d6 /lib | |
parent | 5b79a2243fad631bde9802bdfa8903ea90aca08d (diff) | |
download | perl-e1e0053fcf33943fcf1a07bba02f04e4a0fdd3ad.tar.gz |
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-rwxr-xr-x | lib/legacy.pm | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/legacy.pm b/lib/legacy.pm index 67f287ffd7..eaab5d5a8c 100755 --- a/lib/legacy.pm +++ b/lib/legacy.pm @@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ The one current possibility is: =head3 unicode8bit -THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE - Use legacy semantics for the 128 characters on ASCII systems that have the 8th bit set. (See L</EBCDIC platforms> below for EBCDIC systems.) Unless C<S<use locale>> is specified, or the scalar containing such a character is @@ -62,7 +60,7 @@ anything. This behavior stems from when Perl did not support Unicode, and ASCII was the only known character set outside of C<S<use locale>>. In order to not -possibly break pre_Unicode programs, these characters have retained their old +possibly break pre-Unicode programs, these characters have retained their old non-meanings, except when it is clear to Perl that Unicode is what is meant, for example by calling utf8::upgrade() on a scalar, or if the scalar also contains characters that are only available in Unicode. Then these 128 @@ -80,7 +78,8 @@ The behavior is known to have effects on these areas: =item * Changing the case of a scalar, that is, using C<uc()>, C<ucfirst()>, C<lc()>, -and C<lcfirst()>, or C<\L>, C<\U>, C<\u> and C<\l> in regular expression substitutions. +and C<lcfirst()>, or C<\L>, C<\U>, C<\u> and C<\l> in regular expression +substitutions. =item * @@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ a colon, to distinguish it from an individual legacy behavior. Specifying sub-versions such as the C<0> in C<5.10.0> in legacy bundles has no effect: legacy bundles are guaranteed to be the same for all sub-versions. -Legacy bundles are not allowed with C<no legacy> +Legacy bundles are not allowed with C<no legacy>. =cut |