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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-09-11 11:17:03 -0600 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2010-09-25 00:47:01 -0700 |
| commit | 835df198d2bff566733a20d3ed123d32883ebe29 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e345843d131a757c81be034ddc7c7babfadf4f4 /pod | |
| parent | 2b03cdd54aa6cdc31eb146937438e523f8691096 (diff) | |
| download | perl-835df198d2bff566733a20d3ed123d32883ebe29.tar.gz | |
Fix casing, wording
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrebackslash.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod index d460f7f052..eb51d94305 100644 --- a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod +++ b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod @@ -174,12 +174,12 @@ To specify by name, the name of the character goes between the curly braces. In this case, you have to C<use charnames> to load the Unicode names of the characters, otherwise Perl will complain. -To specify by Unicode ordinal number, use the form +To specify a character by Unicode code point, use the form C<\N{U+I<wide hex character>}>, where I<wide hex character> is a number in hexadecimal that gives the ordinal number that Unicode has assigned to the desired character. It is customary (but not required) to use leading zeros to pad the number to 4 digits. Thus C<\N{U+0041}> means -C<Latin Capital Letter A>, and you will rarely see it written without the two +C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A>, and you will rarely see it written without the two leading zeros. C<\N{U+0041}> means "A" even on EBCDIC machines (where the ordinal value of "A" is not 0x41). |