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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index b8bbc5707c..30a4482260 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ The following areas need further work. 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. Unfortunately it is unlikely that the Perl -5.6 and earlier will ever gain this capability. +focus in the near future. =item Regular Expressions @@ -67,8 +66,7 @@ or from literals and constants in the source text. If the C<-C> command line switch is used, (or the ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS} global flag is set to C<1>), all system calls will use the corresponding wide character APIs. This is currently only implemented -on Windows as other platforms do not have a unified way of handling -wide character APIs. +on Windows. Regardless of the above, the C<bytes> pragma can always be used to force byte semantics in a particular lexical scope. See L<bytes>. @@ -129,7 +127,8 @@ attempt to canonicalize variable names for you.) Regular expressions match characters instead of bytes. For instance, "." matches a character instead of a byte. (However, the C<\C> pattern -is available to force a match a single byte ("C<char>" in C, hence C<\C>).) +is provided to force a match a single byte ("C<char>" in C, hence +C<\C>).) =item * @@ -217,10 +216,7 @@ And finally, C<scalar reverse()> reverses by character rather than by byte. =head2 Character encodings for input and output -This feature is in the process of getting implemented. - -(For Perl 5.6 and earlier the support is unlikely to get integrated -to the core language and some external module will be required.) +[XXX: This feature is not yet implemented.] =head1 CAVEATS |