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diff --git a/lib/charnames.pm b/lib/charnames.pm index d1fd7c8493..ce0938bee9 100644 --- a/lib/charnames.pm +++ b/lib/charnames.pm @@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ brace-enclosed quantifier (see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>). For example C<\N{123}> means to match 123 non-newline characters, and is not treated as an alias. Aliases are discouraged from beginning with anything other than an alphabetic character and from containing anything other than alphanumerics, -spaces, dashes, colons, parentheses, and underscores. +spaces, dashes, colons, parentheses, and underscores. Currently they must be +ASCII. =head2 Anonymous hashes @@ -561,6 +562,8 @@ otherwise. It is planned to change this to always return an ord. None of the functions work on almost all the Hangul syllable and CJK Unicode characters that have their code points as part of their names. +Names must be ASCII characters only. + Unicode standard named sequences are not recognized, such as C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON AND GRAVE> (which should mean C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON> with an additional |