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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-03-19 14:48:51 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-03-19 18:23:44 -0600 |
| commit | d0460f306d2b79d09a9e5694f9f72c50a2481b83 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bacaf9ed0a384f584b1d7104b3c84241bd9b6b6 /utf8.c | |
| parent | a1433954f53591f4446530df211b86112c6c2446 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d0460f306d2b79d09a9e5694f9f72c50a2481b83.tar.gz | |
utf8.c: pod clarification
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@@ -549,7 +549,8 @@ UTF8_CHECK_ONLY is also specified.) Very large code points (above 0x7FFF_FFFF) are considered more problematic than the others that are above the Unicode legal maximum. There are several -reasons, one of which is that the original UTF-8 specification never went above +reasons: they do not fit into a 32-bit word, are not representable on EBCDIC +platforms, and the original UTF-8 specification never went above this number (the current 0x10FFF limit was imposed later). The UTF-8 encoding on ASCII platforms for these large code points begins with a byte containing 0xFE or 0xFF. The UTF8_DISALLOW_FE_FF flag will cause them to be treated as |