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diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index d393b81483..31ab40a58d 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization) =head1 DESCRIPTION Perl supports language-specific notions of data such as "is this a -letter", "what is the upper-case equivalent of this letter", and "which +letter", "what is the uppercase equivalent of this letter", and "which of these letters comes first". These are important issues, especially for languages other than English - but also for English: it would be very naE<iuml>ve to think that C<A-Za-z> defines all the "letters". Perl @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ setting, characters like 'E<aelig>', 'E<eth>', 'E<szlig>', and 'E<oslash>' may be understood as C<\w> characters. The C<LC_CTYPE> locale also provides the map used in translating -characters between lower- and upper-case. This affects the case-mapping +characters between lower and uppercase. This affects the case-mapping functions - lc(), lcfirst, uc() and ucfirst(); case-mapping interpolation with C<\l>, C<\L>, C<\u> or <\U> in double-quoted strings and in C<s///> substitutions; and case-independent regular expression |