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author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2007-06-24 15:46:40 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2007-06-24 15:46:40 +0000 |
commit | 38a44b824c7566670d69f5e214106e1866ce72fe (patch) | |
tree | 8938dc96d0dae69214f68d7f8ce3fd0b5ef95b7d /pod/perlretut.pod | |
parent | cb23d5b19261a41b403a114d55551ddac48af175 (diff) | |
download | perl-38a44b824c7566670d69f5e214106e1866ce72fe.tar.gz |
s/\bunicode\b/Unicode/; # For everything not dual life
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31455
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diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index da3e82c74f..360ee73173 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ substituted. With the advent of 5.6.0, Perl regexps can handle more than just the standard ASCII character set. Perl now supports I<Unicode>, a standard for representing the alphabets from virtually all of the world's written -languages, and a host of symbols. Perl's text strings are unicode strings, so +languages, and a host of symbols. Perl's text strings are Unicode strings, so they can contain characters with a value (codepoint or character number) higher than 255 @@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ A list of full names is found in the file NamesList.txt in the lib/perl5/X.X.X/unicore directory (where X.X.X is the perl version number as it is installed on your system). -The answer to requirement 2), as of 5.6.0, is that a regexp uses unicode +The answer to requirement 2), as of 5.6.0, is that a regexp uses Unicode characters. Internally, this is encoded to bytes using either UTF-8 or a native 8 bit encoding, depending on the history of the string, but conceptually it is a sequence of characters, not bytes. See |