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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-04-06 09:23:58 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-04-06 09:44:17 -0600
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utfebcdic.h: Remove comments
One is false, and one is addressed now in the perlebcdic.pod
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@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@
* The EBCDIC invariants have been chosen to be those characters whose Unicode
* equivalents have ordinal numbers less than 160, that is the same characters
* that are expressible in ASCII, plus the C1 controls. So there are 160
- * invariants instead of the 128 in UTF-8. (My guess is that this is because
- * the C1 control NEL (and maybe others) is important in IBM.)
+ * invariants instead of the 128 in UTF-8.
*
* The purpose of Step 3 is to make the encoding be invariant for the chosen
* characters. This messes up the convenient patterns found in step 2, so
@@ -84,8 +83,6 @@
* pages. Best is to convert to I8 before sending them, as the I8
* representation is the same no matter what the underlying code page is.
*
- * tr16 also says that NEL and LF be swapped. We don't do that.
- *
* Because of the way UTF-EBCDIC is constructed, the lowest 32 code points that
* aren't equivalent to ASCII characters nor C1 controls form the set of
* continuation bytes; the remaining 64 non-ASCII, non-control code points form