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authorDan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com>2022-05-31 15:09:22 -0400
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2022-06-07 08:49:57 -0600
commitdd834db38c17eed742a7adc0c4baad02341dcd03 (patch)
tree1ec16799be9c2e9845a43b3ccdd91e99c671295c /lib
parentb1e32ab0ffca8d27743905c756b88d5718911aa8 (diff)
downloadperl-dd834db38c17eed742a7adc0c4baad02341dcd03.tar.gz
feature - document that use utf8 should probably be used for non-ascii delimiters
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-rw-r--r--lib/feature.pm6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/feature.pm b/lib/feature.pm
index 3755e6949c..a024d92d3e 100644
--- a/lib/feature.pm
+++ b/lib/feature.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
package feature;
-our $VERSION = '1.73';
+our $VERSION = '1.74';
our %feature = (
fc => 'feature_fc',
@@ -469,6 +469,10 @@ This feature enables the use of more paired string delimiters than the
traditional four, S<C<< < > >>>, S<C<( )>>, S<C<{ }>>, and S<C<[ ]>>. When
this feature is on, for example, you can say S<C<qrE<171>patE<187>>>.
+As with any usage of non-ASCII delimiters in a UTF-8-encoded source file, you
+will want to ensure the parser will decode the source code from UTF-8 bytes
+with a declaration such as C<use utf8>.
+
This feature is available starting in Perl 5.36.
The complete list of accepted paired delimiters as of Unicode 14.0 is: