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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2015-11-28 11:49:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2015-11-28 17:19:27 -0700 |
| commit | 760c7c2f746ce3f3c3356b0a3efb017b6d0cb5b0 (patch) | |
| tree | ae46772546d1e407ac82e7d9fdb94ff71e842519 /pod/perlunicode.pod | |
| parent | ab8e6d41354e33543e31744c782a29d8d9568dce (diff) | |
| download | perl-760c7c2f746ce3f3c3356b0a3efb017b6d0cb5b0.tar.gz | |
Deprecate Unicode code points above IV_MAX
See https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=115166
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index aa0fdca2e4..a652d8d796 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -1289,7 +1289,10 @@ encoding of numbers up to C<0x7FFF_FFFF>. Perl continues to allow those, and has extended that up to 13 bytes to encode code points up to what can fit in a 64-bit word. However, Perl will warn if you output any of these as being non-portable; and under strict UTF-8 input protocols, -they are forbidden. +they are forbidden. In addition, it is deprecated to use a code point +larger than what a signed integer variable on your system can hold. On +32-bit ASCII systems, this means C<0x7FFF_FFFF> is the legal maximum +going forward (much higher on 64-bit systems). =item * |