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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-02-19 10:13:41 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-02-19 11:47:41 -0700
commit5262a112382d4f3febe3783025da4f88d3598c31 (patch)
tree6a89151b01da8a1ad770d9747d3a6652c1927c5d /pod
parente074b0e508bc39eeecd7253e65329aeb4df5c5ee (diff)
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perlunicode.pod: Remove false statement
In fact the code is such that changing an A to a cntrol does work
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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index 7f3a795198..edb722d97f 100644
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -1499,12 +1499,7 @@ variable, see L<perlrun> for the documentation of the C<-C> switch.
Perl tries really hard to work both with Unicode and the old
byte-oriented world. Most often this is nice, but sometimes Perl's
-straddling of the proverbial fence causes problems. Here's an example
-of how things can go wrong. A locale can define a code point to be
-anything it wants. It could make 'A' into a control character, for example.
-But strings encoded in utf8 always have Unicode semantics, so an 'A' in
-such a string is always an uppercase letter, never a control, no matter
-what the locale says it should be.
+straddling of the proverbial fence causes problems.
=back