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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-04-05 23:11:23 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-04-05 23:11:23 +0000
commite6739005830202de48080b28d51d1701a9bec0cd (patch)
tree4466ed5b273597f3e97d2e22362b1151a58f67fa /pod
parent35eb68742119c178544bbbc05f84d478aab46864 (diff)
downloadperl-e6739005830202de48080b28d51d1701a9bec0cd.tar.gz
Slight doc tweak.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9582
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perlunicode.pod14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index bb3ce2b87d..5b8d5be06c 100644
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ in an particular encoding.
=item Regular Expressions
-The regular expression compiler does now attempt to produce polymorphic
-opcodes. That is the pattern should now adapt to the data and
-automaticaly switch to the Unicode character scheme when presented with Unicode data,
-or a traditional byte scheme when presented with byte data.
-The implementation is still new and (particularly on EBCDIC platforms) may
-need further work.
+The regular expression compiler does now attempt to produce
+polymorphic opcodes. That is the pattern should now adapt to the data
+and automatically switch to the Unicode character scheme when presented
+with Unicode data, or a traditional byte scheme when presented with
+byte data. The implementation is still new and (particularly on
+EBCDIC platforms) may need further work.
=item C<use utf8> still needed to enable a few features
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ or from literals and constants in the source text.
If the C<-C> command line switch is used, (or the ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}
global flag is set to C<1>), all system calls will use the
corresponding wide character APIs. This is currently only implemented
-on Windows.
+on Windows since UNIXes lack API standard on this area.
Regardless of the above, the C<bytes> pragma can always be used to force
byte semantics in a particular lexical scope. See L<bytes>.