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diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index fb93792fdc..79d7afe1f0 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ The following collations all make sense and you may meet any of them if you "use locale". A B C D E a b c d e - A a B b C c D d D e + A a B b C c D d E e a A b B c C d D e E a b c d e A B C D E @@ -453,13 +453,13 @@ Here is a code snippet to tell what "word" characters are in the current locale, in that locale's order: use locale; - print +(sort grep /\w/, map { chr() } 0..255), "\n"; + print +(sort grep /\w/, map { chr } 0..255), "\n"; Compare this with the characters that you see and their order if you state explicitly that the locale should be ignored: no locale; - print +(sort grep /\w/, map { chr() } 0..255), "\n"; + print +(sort grep /\w/, map { chr } 0..255), "\n"; This machine-native collation (which is what you get unless S<C<use locale>> has appeared earlier in the same block) must be used for @@ -554,9 +554,9 @@ change the character used for the decimal point--perhaps from '.' to ','. These functions aren't aware of such niceties as thousands separation and so on. (See L<The localeconv function> if you care about these things.) -Output produced by print() is B<never> affected by the -current locale: it is independent of whether C<use locale> or C<no -locale> is in effect, and corresponds to what you'd get from printf() +Output produced by print() is also affected by the +current locale: it depends on whether C<use locale> or C<no locale> is in +effect, and corresponds to what you'd get from printf() in the "C" locale. The same is true for Perl's internal conversions between numeric and string formats: @@ -565,9 +565,9 @@ between numeric and string formats: $n = 5/2; # Assign numeric 2.5 to $n - $a = " $n"; # Locale-independent conversion to string + $a = " $n"; # Locale-dependent conversion to string - print "half five is $n\n"; # Locale-independent output + print "half five is $n\n"; # Locale-dependent output printf "half five is %g\n", $n; # Locale-dependent output |