(mostly (Unicode)) pod nits

Message-Id: <20020906030157.GA28252@lyta.hut.fi>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17850

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index 75331e1eb3..66a0821d2e 100644
--- a/pod/perl.pod
+++ b/pod/perl.pod
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ L<perlguts>, and L<xsubpp>.
 
 =item *
 
-roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous DBM implementations)
+roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous DBM
+implementations)
 
 Described in L<perltie> and L<AnyDBM_File>.
 
@@ -288,21 +289,15 @@ and L<perlbot>.
 
 =item *
 
-compilability into C code or Perl bytecode
-
-Described in L<B> and L<B::Bytecode>.
-
-=item *
-
 support for light-weight processes (threads)
 
-Described in L<perlthrtut> and L<Thread>.
+Described in L<perlthrtut> and L<threads>.
 
 =item *
 
-support for internationalization, localization, and Unicode 
+support for Unicode, internationalization, and localization
 
-Described in L<perllocale> and L<utf8>.
+Described in L<perluniintro>, L<perllocale> and L<Locale::Maketext>.
 
 =item *
 
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index 8489702fd5..49f7432b9a 100644
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -598,17 +598,8 @@ than one Unicode character.
 
 =back
 
-The following cases do not yet work:
-
-=over 8
-
-=item *
-
-the "final sigma" (Greek), and
-
-=item *
-
-anything to with locales (Lithuanian, Turkish, Azeri).
+Things to do with locales (Lithuanian, Turkish, Azeri) do B<not> work
+since Perl does not understand the concept of Unicode locales.
 
 =back
 
@@ -771,17 +762,19 @@ which will match assigned characters known to be part of the Greek script.
 
 Level 2 - Extended Unicode Support
 
-        3.1 Surrogates                          - MISSING
-        3.2 Canonical Equivalents               - MISSING       [11][12]
-        3.3 Locale-Independent Graphemes        - MISSING       [13]
-        3.4 Locale-Independent Words            - MISSING       [14]
-        3.5 Locale-Independent Loose Matches    - MISSING       [15]
-
-        [11] see UTR#15 Unicode Normalization
-        [12] have Unicode::Normalize but not integrated to regexes
-        [13] have \X but at this level . should equal that
-        [14] need three classes, not just \w and \W
-        [15] see UTR#21 Case Mappings
+        3.1 Surrogates                          - MISSING	[11]
+        3.2 Canonical Equivalents               - MISSING       [12][13]
+        3.3 Locale-Independent Graphemes        - MISSING       [14]
+        3.4 Locale-Independent Words            - MISSING       [15]
+        3.5 Locale-Independent Loose Matches    - MISSING       [16]
+
+        [11] Surrogates are solely a UTF-16 concept and Perl's internal
+             representation is UTF-8.  The Encode module does UTF-16, though.
+        [12] see UTR#15 Unicode Normalization
+        [13] have Unicode::Normalize but not integrated to regexes
+        [14] have \X but at this level . should equal that
+        [15] need three classes, not just \w and \W
+        [16] see UTR#21 Case Mappings
 
 =item *
 
diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod
index 870926ea1f..223dbae7fd 100644
--- a/pod/perluniintro.pod
+++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ If you have the GNU recode installed, you can also use the
 Perl front-end C<Convert::Recode> for character conversions.
 
 The following are fast conversions from ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) bytes
-to UTF-8 bytes, the code works even with older Perl 5 versions.
+to UTF-8 bytes and back, the code works even with older Perl 5 versions.
 
     # ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8
     s/([\x80-\xFF])/chr(0xC0|ord($1)>>6).chr(0x80|ord($1)&0x3F)/eg;