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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index ca48470..174ff60 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ last value in the list. Some operators return a count of successful
operations. In general, they do what you want, unless you want
consistency.
-An named array in scalar context is quite different from what would at
+A named array in scalar context is quite different from what would at
first glance appear to be a list in scalar context. You can't get a list
like C<(1,2,3)> into being in scalar context, because the compiler knows
the context at compile time. It would generate the scalar comma operator
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ X<-S>X<-b>X<-c>X<-t>X<-u>X<-g>X<-k>X<-T>X<-B>X<-M>X<-A>X<-C>
-g File has setgid bit set.
-k File has sticky bit set.
- -T File is an ASCII text file.
+ -T File is an ASCII text file (heuristic guess).
-B File is a "binary" file (opposite of -T).
-M Age of file in days when script started.
@@ -682,12 +682,12 @@ On POSIX systems, you can detect this condition this way:
Returns the character represented by that NUMBER in the character set.
For example, C is C<"A"> in either ASCII or Unicode, and
-chr(0x263a) is a Unicode smiley face. Note that characters from
-127 to 255 (inclusive) are not encoded in Unicode for backward
-compatibility reasons.
+chr(0x263a) is a Unicode smiley face. Note that characters from 127
+to 255 (inclusive) are by default not encoded in Unicode for backward
+compatibility reasons (but see L).
For the reverse, use L.
-See L for more about Unicode.
+See L and L for more about Unicode.
If NUMBER is omitted, uses C<$_>.
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ back. Look at the F and F directories
on your favorite CPAN mirror for a slew of potentially useful
modules.
-If using crypt() on an Unicode string (which potentially has
+If using crypt() on a Unicode string (which potentially has
characters with codepoints above 255), Perl tries to make sense of
the situation by using only the low eight bits of the characters when
calling crypt().
@@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ C extension. See L for details.
=item gmtime EXPR
-Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 8-element list
+Converts a time as returned by the time function to an 8-element list
with the time localized for the standard Greenwich time zone.
Typically used as follows:
@@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ C work.
=item lc
-Returns an lowercased version of EXPR. This is the internal function
+Returns a lowercased version of EXPR. This is the internal function
implementing the C<\L> escape in double-quoted strings. Respects
current LC_CTYPE locale if C.
-See L for more about Unicode.
+Returns the numeric (the native 8-bit encoding, like ASCII or EBCDIC,
+or Unicode) value of the first character of EXPR. If EXPR is omitted,
+uses C<$_>.
+
+For the reverse, see L.
+See L and L for more about Unicode.
=item our EXPR
@@ -3051,8 +3054,8 @@ sequence of characters that give the order and type of values, as
follows:
a A string with arbitrary binary data, will be null padded.
- A An ASCII string, will be space padded.
- Z A null terminated (asciz) string, will be null padded.
+ A A text (ASCII) string, will be space padded.
+ Z A null terminated (ASCIZ) string, will be null padded.
b A bit string (ascending bit order inside each byte, like vec()).
B A bit string (descending bit order inside each byte).
@@ -3922,7 +3925,7 @@ may vary from one execution to the next (see C). If no EXPR
is given, returns an empty list in list context, the undefined value in
scalar context, and (of course) nothing at all in a void context.
-(Note that in the absence of a explicit C, a subroutine, eval,
+(Note that in the absence of an explicit C, a subroutine, eval,
or do FILE will automatically return the value of the last expression
evaluated.)