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

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

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 59de7fd..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 *
 
@@ -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