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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-02-15 12:27:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-02-15 18:02:35 -0700 |
| commit | 20adcf7c80fc3ad8cffa7d52b95a40d87bd781d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 42b6ebc3be70e41366f78282be3e658182a06468 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 29050de536086566fb4d4a9db818b8068dd118a0 (diff) | |
| download | perl-20adcf7c80fc3ad8cffa7d52b95a40d87bd781d0.tar.gz | |
pp_quote_meta: in locale, quote all UTF-8 Latin1 non-ASCII
Under locale rules, this commit quotes all non-ASCII Latin1 characters
in UTF-8 encoded strings. This provides consistency with this function
and other functions, such as lc().
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 7cec3bbcc2..8d97258a8d 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4976,6 +4976,12 @@ compatibility for old programs which do not use Unicode. (Note that C<unicode_strings> is automatically enabled within the scope of a S<C<use v5.12>> or greater.) +Within the scope of C<use locale>, all non-ASCII Latin1 code points +are quoted whether the string is encoded as UTF-8 or not. As mentioned +above, locale does not affect the quoting of ASCII-range characters. +This protects against those locales where characters such as C<"|"> are +considered to be word characters. + Otherwise, Perl quotes non-ASCII characters using an adaptation from Unicode (see L<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/>.) The only code points that are quoted are those that have any of the |