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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2009-12-12 15:57:28 +0100
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2009-12-12 15:57:28 +0100
commite1e0053fcf33943fcf1a07bba02f04e4a0fdd3ad (patch)
tree035d5171ccee64df32aadadb8b2bcd2ed28439d6 /lib
parent5b79a2243fad631bde9802bdfa8903ea90aca08d (diff)
downloadperl-e1e0053fcf33943fcf1a07bba02f04e4a0fdd3ad.tar.gz
Doc nits
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rwxr-xr-xlib/legacy.pm9
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