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authorDavid Leadbeater <dgl@dgl.cx>2011-03-25 10:20:50 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2011-03-25 10:27:20 -0700
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[perl #86992] perlretut: Reference the Unicode standard for data files
Since e4ed29fb stopped installing NamesList.txt the documentation can no longer suggest use of it, instead reference the Unicode standard in use by this version of perl.
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@@ -1923,9 +1923,8 @@ One can also use short names or restrict names to a certain alphabet:
use charnames qw(greek);
print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma\n";
-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).
+A list of full names can be found in F<NamesList.txt> in the Unicode standard
+(available at L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/>).
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