=head3 Unicode
B<Unicode> is a character set with room for lots of characters. The ordinal
-value of a character is called a B<code point>.
+value of a character is called a B<code point>. (But in practice, the
+distinction between code point and character is blurred, so the terms often
+are used interchangeably.)
-There are many, many code points, but computers work with bytes, and a byte can
-have only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters, so you need a method
-to make these accessible.
+There are many, many code points, but computers work with bytes, and a byte has
+room for only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters, so you need a
+method to make these accessible.
Unicode is encoded using several competing encodings, of which UTF-8 is the
most used. In a Unicode encoding, multiple subsequent bytes can be used to
=head1 AUTHOR
-Juerd Waalboer <juerd@cpan.org>
+Juerd Waalboer <#####@juerd.nl>
=head1 SEE ALSO