range, up to 255. After some more Latin extensions we find the character
sets from languages using non-Roman alphabets, interspersed with a
variety of symbol sets such as currency symbols, Zapf Dingbats or Braille.
-(You might want to visit L<www.unicode.org> for a look at some of
+(You might want to visit L<http://www.unicode.org/> for a look at some of
them - my personal favourites are Telugu and Kannada.)
The Unicode character sets associates characters with integers. Encoding
Please note: in the general case, you're better off using
Encode::decode_utf8 to decode a UTF-8 encoded byte string to a Perl
-unicode string, and Encode::encode_utf8 to encode a Perl unicode string
+Unicode string, and Encode::encode_utf8 to encode a Perl Unicode string
to UTF-8 bytes. These functions provide means of handling invalid byte
sequences and generally have a friendlier interface.
The pack code C<w> has been added to support a portable binary data
encoding scheme that goes way beyond simple integers. (Details can
-be found at L<Casbah.org>, the Scarab project.) A BER (Binary Encoded
+be found at L<http://Casbah.org/>, the Scarab project.) A BER (Binary Encoded
Representation) compressed unsigned integer stores base 128
digits, most significant digit first, with as few digits as possible.
Bit eight (the high bit) is set on each byte except the last. There