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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)> | 2010-04-26 10:22:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2010-04-26 10:22:42 +0200 |
| commit | df5278db341f8ca19793de60a6c76a60632d607f (patch) | |
| tree | 8f1c0ac0dc866d644fdf7847561253a70d59fcbf /pod | |
| parent | f9d1352942831df20889dc83ce32232f9c13590f (diff) | |
| download | perl-df5278db341f8ca19793de60a6c76a60632d607f.tar.gz | |
Note in delta an incompatibility for \cX
X in "\cX" must now be ASCII. Previously, it could be anything, but led
to a malformed utf8 error if wasn't Latin1. This construct was never
intended to be used for anything but (a subset of) ASCII.
(moved to the delta for 5.13.1)
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5131delta.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5131delta.pod b/pod/perl5131delta.pod index 081d868bb1..74f03e0279 100644 --- a/pod/perl5131delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5131delta.pod @@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ XXX Any important notices here =head1 Incompatible Changes -XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: - - There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX. If any - exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. +=head2 "C<\cI<X>>" +The backslash-c construct was designed as a way of specifying +non-printable characters, but there were no restrictions (on ASCII +platforms) on what the character following the C<c> could be. Now, that +character must be one of the ASCII characters. =head1 Core Enhancements |