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@@ -137,19 +137,6 @@ This works for all characters that have names.
=item *
-If Unicode is used in hash keys, there is a subtle effect on the hashes.
-The hash becomes "Unicode-sticky" so that keys retrieved from the hash
-(either by %hash, each %hash, or keys %hash) will be in Unicode, not
-in bytes, even when the keys were bytes went they "went in". This
-"stickiness" persists unless the hash is completely emptied, either by
-using delete() or clearing the with undef() or assigning an empty list
-to the hash. Most of the time this difference is negligible, but
-there are few places where it matters: for example the regular
-expression character classes like C<\w> behave differently for
-bytes and characters.
-
-=item *
-
If an appropriate L<encoding> is specified, identifiers within the
Perl script may contain Unicode alphanumeric characters, including
ideographs. (You are currently on your own when it comes to using the