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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2010-11-12 09:04:37 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2010-11-22 13:32:51 -0800
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@@ -4313,7 +4313,9 @@ EXTCONST char* const PL_sig_name[];
EXTCONST int PL_sig_num[];
#endif
-/* fast conversion and case folding tables */
+/* fast conversion and case folding tables. The folding tables complement the
+ * fold, so that 'a' maps to 'A' and 'A' maps to 'a', ignoring more complicated
+ * folds such as outside the range or to multiple characters. */
#ifdef DOINIT
#ifdef EBCDIC