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authorDavid Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>2011-06-07 06:35:22 -0400
committerDavid Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>2011-06-07 06:35:22 -0400
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perldelta.pod: added summary of formline changes
Summary paragraph received by email from Dave Mitchell.
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@@ -373,6 +373,14 @@ LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T,
and
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST.
+=item *
+
+Formats: number of edge cases have been fixed with formats and formline;
+in particular, where the format itself is potentially variable (such as
+with ties and overloading), and where the format and data differ in their
+encoding. In both these cases, it used to possible for the output to be
+corrupted.
+
=back
=head1 Known Problems