further speeding up of is_utf8_string()

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

diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 36a8705..c838264 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -658,9 +658,9 @@ Do not assume that the alphabetic characters are encoded contiguously
 
 Do not assume anything about the ordering of the characters.
 The lowercase letters may come before or after the uppercase letters;
-the lowercase and uppercase may be interlaced so that both `a' and `A'
-come before `b'; the accented and other international characters may
-be interlaced so that E<auml> comes before `b'.
+the lowercase and uppercase may be interlaced so that both "a" and "A"
+come before "b"; the accented and other international characters may
+be interlaced so that E<auml> comes before "b".
 
 =head2 Internationalisation
 
@@ -1773,6 +1773,10 @@ Not implemented. (S<Plan 9>)
 This operator is implemented via the File::Glob extension on most
 platforms.  See L<File::Glob> for portability information.
 
+=item gmtime
+
+Same portability caveats as L<localtime>.
+
 =item ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR
 
 Not implemented. (VMS)
@@ -1806,6 +1810,13 @@ Link count not updated because hard links are not quite that hard
 Hard links are implemented on Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 2000)
 under NTFS only.
 
+=item localtime
+
+Because Perl currently relies on the native standard C localtime()
+function, it is only safe to use times between 0 and (2**31)-1.  Times
+outside this range may result in unexpected behavior depending on your
+operating system's implementation of localtime().
+
 =item lstat
 
 Not implemented. (VMS, S<RISC OS>)