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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-12-16 02:47:36 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-12-16 02:47:36 +0000
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Can't create surrogates; so can't match them, either.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13709
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@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ The following reserved ranges have C<In> tests:
For example C<"\x{AC00}" =~ \p{HangulSyllable}> will test true.
(Handling of surrogates is not implemented yet, because Perl
-uses UTF-8 and not UTF-16 internally to represent Unicode.)
+uses UTF-8 and not UTF-16 internally to represent Unicode.
+So you really can't use the "Cs" category.)
Additionally, because scripts differ in their directionality
(for example Hebrew is written right to left), all characters