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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2013-03-11 21:13:38 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2013-03-11 21:21:03 -0600 |
| commit | 4b9734bf16232aac75ed56df6352c09d1caad7b3 (patch) | |
| tree | b1fe580a02d6ae63b54c758d033c9722519e86b5 /pod/perlunifaq.pod | |
| parent | 020c4f9110283940e8755ca2f70f6e943b42efe3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-4b9734bf16232aac75ed56df6352c09d1caad7b3.tar.gz | |
EBCDIC has the Unicode bug too
We have not had a working modern Perl on EBCDIC for some years. When I
started out, comments and code led me to conclude erroneously that
natively it supported semantics for all 256 characters 0-255. It turns
out that I was wrong; it natively (at least on some platforms) has the
same rules (essentially none) for the characters which don't correspond
to ASCII onees, as the rules for these on ASCII platforms.
This commit is documentation only, mostly just removing the special
mentions of EBCDIC.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlunifaq.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlunifaq.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlunifaq.pod b/pod/perlunifaq.pod index ca3a180cfd..f952d1a3f9 100644 --- a/pod/perlunifaq.pod +++ b/pod/perlunifaq.pod @@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ rely on the way things worked before Unicode came along. Those older programs knew only about the ASCII character set, and so may not work properly for additional characters. When a string is encoded in UTF-8, Perl assumes that the program is prepared to deal with Unicode, but when -the string isn't, Perl assumes that only ASCII (unless it is an EBCDIC -platform) is wanted, and so those characters that are not ASCII +the string isn't, Perl assumes that only ASCII +is wanted, and so those characters that are not ASCII characters aren't recognized as to what they would be in Unicode. C<use feature 'unicode_strings'> tells Perl to treat all characters as Unicode, whether the string is encoded in UTF-8 or not, thus avoiding |