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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-06-15 12:08:40 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-06-15 18:29:01 -0600 |
| commit | b59ae8bbf182ce00d4660c21e9672371448543a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4febb25f4d542de0ebe78a8266c47331070e4786 /lib | |
| parent | 14aeae98ed113b6b6569fb3709a338c321a5c738 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b59ae8bbf182ce00d4660c21e9672371448543a4.tar.gz | |
charnames pod: Note that BELL is now deprecated
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/charnames.pm | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/charnames.pm b/lib/charnames.pm index d758543dea..95bbc73077 100644 --- a/lib/charnames.pm +++ b/lib/charnames.pm @@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ For the C0 and C1 control characters (U+0000..U+001F, U+0080..U+009F) there are no official Unicode names but you can use instead the ISO 6429 names (LINE FEED, ESCAPE, and so forth, and their abbreviations, LF, ESC, ...). In Unicode 3.2 (as of Perl 5.8) some naming changes took -place, and ISO 6429 was updated, see L</ALIASES>. +place, and ISO 6429 was updated, see L</ALIASES>. Since Unicode 6.0, it +is deprecated to use C<BELL>. Instead use C<ALERT> (but C<BEL> works). If the input name is unknown, C<\N{NAME}> raises a warning and substitutes the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD). |