Notes on 5.12 Unicode revamping planned.

Complete the "reporting bug" section of perldelta.

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diff --git a/pod/perl5100delta.pod b/pod/perl5100delta.pod
index bd0c1b31d6..8485c546c0 100644
--- a/pod/perl5100delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5100delta.pod
@@ -1550,15 +1550,33 @@ Stacked filetest operators won't work when the C<filetest> pragma is in
 effect, because they rely on the stat() buffer C<_> being populated, and
 filetest bypasses stat().
 
+=head2 UTF-8 problems
+
+The handling of Unicode still is unclean in several places, where it's
+dependent on whether a string is internally flagged as UTF-8. This will
+be made more consistent in perl 5.12, but that won't be possible without
+a certain amount of backwards incompatibility.
+
+=head1 Platform Specific Problems
+
 When compiled with g++ and thread support on Linux, it's reported that the
 C<$!> stops working correctly. This is related to the fact that the glibc
 provides two strerror_r(3) implementation, and perl selects the wrong
 one.
 
-=head1 Platform Specific Problems
-
 =head1 Reporting Bugs
 
+If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
+recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
+bug database at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/ .  There may also be
+information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
+
+If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
+program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down
+to a tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the
+output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
+analysed by the Perl porting team.
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 The F<Changes> file and the perl590delta to perl595delta man pages for