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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2021-12-16 14:30:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2021-12-28 07:58:11 -0700 |
| commit | 3c2b2fcba1af380e364ca5be1cd42495caf25e89 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c0c5e01175c78f8ec62c8fda0e3e87fae3311d5 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 2c9cc169c7a3a605ffcc50c843807bbb3f7e3a75 (diff) | |
| download | perl-3c2b2fcba1af380e364ca5be1cd42495caf25e89.tar.gz | |
Change pack U behavior for EBCDIC
This effectively reverts 3ece276e6c0.
It turns out this was a bad idea to make U mean the non-native official
Unicode code points. It may seem to make sense to do so, but broke
multiple CPAN modules which were using U the previous way.
This commit has no effect on ASCII-platform functioning.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index fbe465bbf5..762f12cb72 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -5247,7 +5247,10 @@ of values, as follows: u A uuencoded string. U A Unicode character number. Encodes to a character in char- acter mode and UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC platforms) in - byte mode. + byte mode. Also on EBCDIC platforms, the character number will + be the native EBCDIC value for character numbers below 256. + This allows most programs using this feature to not have to + care which type of platform they are running on. w A BER compressed integer (not an ASN.1 BER, see perlpacktut for details). Its bytes represent an unsigned integer in |