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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index 5b0fe2faaf..6de9598bf4 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -7,18 +7,17 @@ perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change) =head2 Important Caveat WARNING: As of the 5.6.1 release, the implementation of Unicode - support in Perl is incomplete, and continues to be highly experimental. + support in Perl is incomplete and highly experimental. -The following areas need further work. They are being rapidly addressed -in the 5.7.x development branch. +If you want a far better unicode support, you should use perl 5.8.1 or +later instead. =over 4 =item Input and Output Disciplines -There is currently no easy way to mark data read from a file or other -external source as being utf8. This will be one of the major areas of -focus in the near future. +As of 5.6.x there is no easy way to mark data read from a file or other +external source as being utf8. =item Regular Expressions @@ -122,7 +121,7 @@ a Unicode smiley face is C<\x{263A}>. Identifiers within the Perl script may contain Unicode alphanumeric characters, including ideographs. (You are currently on your own when -it comes to using the canonical forms of characters--Perl doesn't (yet) +it comes to using the canonical forms of characters--Perl doesn't attempt to canonicalize variable names for you.) =item * @@ -218,13 +217,12 @@ And finally, C<scalar reverse()> reverses by character rather than by byte. =head2 Character encodings for input and output -[XXX: This feature is not yet implemented.] +This feature is not implemented. =head1 CAVEATS -As of yet, there is no method for automatically coercing input and -output to some encoding other than UTF-8. This is planned in the near -future, however. +As of perl 5.6.2, there is no method for automatically coercing input and +output to some encoding other than UTF-8. Whether an arbitrary piece of data will be treated as "characters" or "bytes" by internal operations cannot be divined at the current time. |