warning for split(/.../g, ...);

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldelta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 38191b0..f5d98ef 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ and L<perlunicode> for details.
 =item *
 
 The Unicode Character Database coming with Perl has been upgraded
-to Unicode 3.1.1.  For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/.
+to Unicode 3.2.0.  For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/ .
 
 =item *
 
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ prototype(\[$@%&]) is now available to implicitly create references
 =item *
 
 A new command-line option, C<-t> is available.  It is the
-little brother of C<-T>: instead of dieing on taint violations,
+little brother of C<-T>: instead of dying on taint violations,
 lexical warnings are given.  B<This is only meant as a temporary
 debugging aid while securing the code of old legacy applications.
 This is not a substitute for -T.>
@@ -555,6 +555,17 @@ the <FILEHANDLE> angle bracket operator.
 The command-line options -s and -F are now recognized on the shebang
 (#!) line.
 
+=item *
+
+Use of the C</c> match modifier without an accompanying C</g> modifier
+elicits a new warning: C<Use of /c modifier is meaningless without /g>.
+
+Use of C</c> in substitutions, even with C</g>, elicits 
+C<Use of /c modifier is meaningless in s///>.  
+
+Use of C</g> with C<split> elicits <Use of /g modifier is meaningless
+in split>.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
@@ -1180,6 +1191,11 @@ F<emacs/e2ctags.pl> is now much faster.
 
 =item *
 
+C<enc2xs> is a tool for people adding their own encodings to the
+Encode module.
+
+=item *
+
 C<h2ph> now supports C trigraphs.
 
 =item *
@@ -1225,6 +1241,11 @@ for running any time after installing Perl.
 
 =item *
 
+C<piconv> is an implementation of the character conversion utility
+C<iconv>, demonstrating the new Encode module.
+
+=item *
+
 C<pod2html> now allows specifying a cache directory.
 
 =item *
@@ -1347,8 +1368,9 @@ confusion with the Perl POSIX module.
 
 =item *
 
-The documentation for the WinCE platform is called "CE", to avoid
-confusion with the perlwin32 documentation on 8.3-restricted filesystems.
+The documentation for the WinCE platform is called perlce (README.ce
+in the source code kit), to avoid confusion with the perlwin32
+documentation on 8.3-restricted filesystems.
 
 =back
 
@@ -1444,7 +1466,7 @@ exist, but they wouldn't have arrived in time to save quicksort.
 =item *
 
 Hashes now use Bob Jenkins "One-at-a-Time" hashing key algorithm
-(http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html).  This algorithm is
+( http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html ).  This algorithm is
 reasonably fast while producing a much better spread of values than
 the old hashing algorithm (originally by Chris Torek, later tweaked by
 Ilya Zakharevich).  Hash values output from the algorithm on a hash of
@@ -1667,7 +1689,7 @@ After a long pause, AmigaOS has been verified to be happy with Perl.
 
 =item *
 
-AtheOS (http://www.atheos.cx/) is a new platform.
+AtheOS ( http://www.atheos.cx/ ) is a new platform.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -2556,7 +2578,7 @@ unfortunately, always possible.  The suidperl functionality is most
 probably going to be removed in Perl 5.10.  In any case, suidperl
 should only be used by security experts who know exactly what they are
 doing and why they are using suidperl instead of some other solution
-such as sudo (see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/).
+such as sudo ( see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ ).
 
 =head1 New Tests
 
@@ -2620,6 +2642,13 @@ One cannot call Perl using the C<volume:> syntax, that is, C<perl -v>
 works, but for example C<bin:perl -v> doesn't.  The exact reason isn't
 known but the current suspect is the F<ixemul> library.
 
+=head2 FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO8859-15 Locales
+
+The ISO8859-15 locales may fail the locale test 117 in FreeBSD.
+This is caused by the characters \xFF (y with diaeresis) and \xBE
+(Y with diaeresis) not behaving correctly when being matched
+case-insensitively.
+
 =head2 mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl
 
 Use mod_perl 1.27 or higher.
@@ -2641,6 +2670,10 @@ No known fix.
 
 =head2 Mac OS X
 
+Please remember to set your environment variable LC_ALL to "C"
+(setenv LC_ALL C) before running "make test" to avoid a lot of
+warnings about the broken locales of Mac OS X.
+
 The following tests are known to fail:
 
  Failed Test                 Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
@@ -2864,8 +2897,8 @@ from the CPAN.
 
 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
 recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
-bug database at http://bugs.perl.org.  There may also be
-information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
+bug database at http://bugs.perl.org/  There may also be
+information at http://www.perl.com/ , the Perl Home Page.
 
 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
 program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down