X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperl58delta.pod;h=53aa21744f98bc4d3d52ee8aa94cd8e307d777c1;hb=71f882da828ecd892a162839f27e4625d69023fb;hp=00be7d64fbdeac7384dbd4048c04c4935e646657;hpb=70a63dff8306516881e1d108737939903cfadaef;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perl58delta.pod b/pod/perl58delta.pod index 00be7d6..53aa217 100644 --- a/pod/perl58delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl58delta.pod @@ -415,12 +415,12 @@ for more information about UTF-8. =item * -If your environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, LANGUAGE) look -like you want to use UTF-8 (any of the the variables match C), -your STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR handles and the default open layer -(see L) are marked as UTF-8. (This feature, like other new -features that combine Unicode and I/O, work only if you are using -PerlIO, but that's the default.) +If your environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG) look like you +want to use UTF-8 (any of the the variables match C), your +STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR handles and the default open layer (see L) +are marked as UTF-8. (This feature, like other new features that +combine Unicode and I/O, work only if you are using PerlIO, but that's +the default.) Note that after this Perl really does assume that everything is UTF-8: for example if some input handle is not, Perl will probably very soon @@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ returns the number of slept seconds. =item * -The printf() and sprintf() now support parameter reordering using the +printf() and sprintf() now support parameter reordering using the C<%\d+\$> and C<*\d+\$> syntaxes. For example - print "%2\$s %1\$s\n", "foo", "bar"; + printf "%2\$s %1\$s\n", "foo", "bar"; will print "bar foo\n". This feature helps in writing internationalised software, and in general when the order @@ -1012,10 +1012,11 @@ in quoted-printable encoding, as defined in RFC 2045 - I. @@ -3400,6 +3401,10 @@ failures are expected: NDBM_File fails and ODBM_File just coredumps. +If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on FAT), +run Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent +NDBM_File and ODBM_File being built. + =head2 DJGPP Failures t/op/stat............................FAILED at test 29 @@ -3540,6 +3545,12 @@ be exact. (They produce something other than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using the printf format "%.0f"; most often, they produce "0" and "-0".) +=head2 SCO + +The socketpair tests are known to be unhappy in SCO 3.2v5.0.4: + + ext/Socket/socketpair.t...............FAILED tests 15-45 + =head2 Solaris 2.5 In case you are still using Solaris 2.5 (aka SunOS 5.5), you may