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| author | Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org> | 2016-11-20 14:18:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org> | 2017-01-05 19:54:07 +0000 |
| commit | d6c970c7e66d6f55dba7f13549143a2f4ba641c7 (patch) | |
| tree | e080fbe38f9cd2868e8d0607e0840b2906633abc /pod/perlunicode.pod | |
| parent | fb387a96f609c00a517aa640d941f26f1e52f15a (diff) | |
| download | perl-d6c970c7e66d6f55dba7f13549143a2f4ba641c7.tar.gz | |
Fix the Unicode Bug in the range operator
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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index 152c34bbe2..33e52b31b3 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -1814,6 +1814,16 @@ Prior to that, or outside its scope, no code points above 127 are quoted in UTF-8 encoded strings, but in byte encoded strings, code points between 128-255 are always quoted. +=item * + +In the C<..> or L<range|perlop/Range Operators> operator. + +Starting in Perl 5.26.0, the range operator on strings treats their lengths +consistently within the scope of C<unicode_strings>. Prior to that, or +outside its scope, it could produce strings whose length in characters +exceeded that of the right-hand side, where the right-hand side took up more +bytes than the correct range endpoint. + =back You can see from the above that the effect of C<unicode_strings> |