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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-16 12:34:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-16 12:34:36 +0000 |
| commit | c20e2abd87bda89a16a4bc4b0eaecf500fbede5c (patch) | |
| tree | 2178be0864ad475b7f483634a5ec7614792d6fba /pod/perluniintro.pod | |
| parent | ddbf912790641017a0ae28c039dec8489579cc0c (diff) | |
| download | perl-c20e2abd87bda89a16a4bc4b0eaecf500fbede5c.tar.gz | |
Let's not promise too much: use utf8 only works on identifier
names, not package or subroutine names (admittedly limited [1], but
that's what the Camel says, and that's what we are going to stick
to for 5.8.0). Also document that use vars does not do utf8.
[1] The obvious problem in both is that package and subroutine
names need to mappable to the filesystem.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15947
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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index dd3064f6bf..9235495fb1 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -128,10 +128,9 @@ This model was found to be wrong, or at least clumsy: the Unicodeness is now carried with the data, not attached to the operations. (There is one remaining case where an explicit C<use utf8> is needed: if your Perl script itself is encoded in UTF-8, you can use UTF-8 in your -variable and subroutine names, and in your string and regular -expression literals, by saying C<use utf8>. This is not the default -because that would break existing scripts having legacy 8-bit data in -them.) +identifier names, and in your string and regular expression literals, +by saying C<use utf8>. This is not the default because that would +break existing scripts having legacy 8-bit data in them.) =head2 Perl's Unicode Model |