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authorMarc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>2007-04-12 10:41:53 +0200
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-05-10 12:41:08 +0000
commit1651fc447620d3610b694c35696c13530282f981 (patch)
tree482a8b5110d6232c00a8ca636cbf9cec7e723652 /pod
parentad91da88822a061453a454578ec2246dd493ffdd (diff)
downloadperl-1651fc447620d3610b694c35696c13530282f981.tar.gz
Re: Compress::Zlib, pack "C" and utf-8 [PATCH]
Message-ID: <20070412064153.GA22475@schmorp.de> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31194
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 1755bcefaf..101d10e9fb 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3505,8 +3505,7 @@ of values, as follows:
H A hex string (high nybble first).
c A signed char (8-bit) value.
- C An unsigned C char (octet) even under Unicode. Should normally not
- be used. See U and W instead.
+ C An unsigned char (octet) value.
W An unsigned char value (can be greater than 255).
s A signed short (16-bit) value.
@@ -3547,8 +3546,8 @@ of values, as follows:
P A pointer to a structure (fixed-length string).
u A uuencoded string.
- U A Unicode character number. Encodes to UTF-8 internally
- (or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC platforms).
+ U A Unicode character number. Encodes to a character in character mode
+ and UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC platforms) in byte mode.
w A BER compressed integer (not an ASN.1 BER, see perlpacktut for
details). Its bytes represent an unsigned integer in base 128,