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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-03-06 11:18:36 -0700
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2010-03-08 09:51:17 +0100
commit88c9975e7b98d350d1b6ec529e43d24699437316 (patch)
tree90c026e93a78be232d3b723b4d5ec3ae07049a18 /pod
parent79b7484367aeaeee65e60704dd06273cfca231b9 (diff)
downloadperl-88c9975e7b98d350d1b6ec529e43d24699437316.tar.gz
Document that there are bugs with EBCDIC and regexes
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@@ -2163,6 +2163,8 @@ for ASCII characters. For example,
C<m/[\N{CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A}-\N{CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA}]/i>
doesn't match all the Russian upper and lower case letters.
+Many regular expression constructs don't work on EBCDIC platforms.
+
This document varies from difficult to understand to completely
and utterly opaque. The wandering prose riddled with jargon is
hard to fathom in several places.