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@@ -1923,9 +1923,8 @@ One can also use short names or restrict names to a certain alphabet:
use charnames qw(greek);
print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma\n";
-A list of full names is found in the file NamesList.txt in the
-lib/perl5/X.X.X/unicore directory (where X.X.X is the perl
-version number as it is installed on your system).
+A list of full names can be found in F<NamesList.txt> in the Unicode standard
+(available at L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/>).
The answer to requirement 2), as of 5.6.0, is that a regexp uses Unicode
characters. Internally, this is encoded to bytes using either UTF-8 or a