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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-18 15:50:25 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-18 15:50:25 +0000
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URL and other tiny tweaks.
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@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ well-formed Unicode data by C<pack("U*", 0xff, ...)>.
How Do I Display Unicode? How Do I Input Unicode?
-See http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/ and
+See http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ and
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
=item
@@ -743,7 +743,8 @@ The Unicode standard prefers using hexadecimal notation because that
shows better the division of Unicode into blocks of 256 characters.
Hexadecimal is also simply shorter than decimal. You can use decimal
notation, too, but learning to use hexadecimal just makes life easier
-with the Unicode standard.
+with the Unicode standard. The "U+HHHH" notation uses hexadecimal,
+for example.
The C<0x> prefix means a hexadecimal number, the digits are 0-9 I<and>
a-f (or A-F, case doesn't matter). Each hexadecimal digit represents
@@ -798,7 +799,7 @@ Unicode Useful Resources
Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications
- http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/
+ http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/
=item *
@@ -831,11 +832,6 @@ Perl 5.6.1.) You can find the C<$Config{installprivlib}> by
perl "-V:installprivlib"
-Note that some of the files have been renamed from the Unicode
-standard since the Perl installation tries to live by the "8.3"
-filenaming restrictions. The renamings are shown in the
-accompanying F<rename> file.
-
You can explore various information from the Unicode data files using
the C<Unicode::UCD> module.