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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 3882498750..5d280e6936 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ always be set to true, but it needs to be set to false when F<utf8.pm> is being compiled. (To stop Perl trying to autoload the C<utf8> pragma...) +=head2 Create a char *sv_printify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags) function + +For displaying PVs with control characters, embedded nulls, and Unicode. +This would be useful for printing warnings, or data and regex dumping, +not_a_number(), and so on. + =head2 Autoload byte.pm When the lexer sees, for instance, C<bytes::length>, it should @@ -770,3 +776,13 @@ done manually, with C<goto &whoami;>. (However, MJD has found that C<goto &whoami> introduces a performance penalty, so maybe there should be a way to do this after all: C<sub foo {START: ... goto START;> is better.) + +=head2 Make "use utf8" the default + +There is a patch available for this, search p5p archives for +the Subject "[EXPERIMENTAL PATCH] make unicode (utf8) default" +but this would be unacceptable because of backward compatibility: +scripts could not contain B<any legacy eight-bit data>. Also would +introduce a measurable slowdown of at least few percentages since all +regular expression operations would be done in full UTF-8. + |