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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-02-25 12:35:14 -0700
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-02-28 10:15:19 -1000
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@@ -1866,8 +1866,8 @@ Unicode and encoded in UTF-8, then an explicit C<use utf8> is needed.)
Figuring out the hexadecimal sequence of a Unicode character you want
or deciphering someone else's hexadecimal Unicode regexp is about as
much fun as programming in machine code. So another way to specify
-Unicode characters is to use the I<named character>> escape
-sequence C<\N{name}>. C<name> is a name for the Unicode character, as
+Unicode characters is to use the I<named character> escape
+sequence C<\N{I<name>}>. I<name> is a name for the Unicode character, as
specified in the Unicode standard. For instance, if we wanted to
represent or match the astrological sign for the planet Mercury, we
could use