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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)> | 2009-12-24 22:54:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> | 2009-12-25 10:07:41 +0100 |
| commit | e1b711dac329baf9cf4ea3e4628e6c713e24b342 (patch) | |
| tree | b12ce1b41c2d6c0582296ddad541efd2ae3f71e2 /pod/perlunitut.pod | |
| parent | 27bca3226281a592aed848b7e68ea50f27381dac (diff) | |
| download | perl-e1b711dac329baf9cf4ea3e4628e6c713e24b342.tar.gz | |
Update .pods
Signed-off-by: Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>
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diff --git a/pod/perlunitut.pod b/pod/perlunitut.pod index 6c7dfb057e..9c4f3074d0 100644 --- a/pod/perlunitut.pod +++ b/pod/perlunitut.pod @@ -37,11 +37,13 @@ You may have to re-read this entire section a few times... =head3 Unicode B<Unicode> is a character set with room for lots of characters. The ordinal -value of a character is called a B<code point>. +value of a character is called a B<code point>. (But in practice, the +distinction between code point and character is blurred, so the terms often +are used interchangeably.) -There are many, many code points, but computers work with bytes, and a byte can -have only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters, so you need a method -to make these accessible. +There are many, many code points, but computers work with bytes, and a byte has +room for only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters, so you need a +method to make these accessible. Unicode is encoded using several competing encodings, of which UTF-8 is the most used. In a Unicode encoding, multiple subsequent bytes can be used to |