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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 1f57c0c..534580a 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ Possible options, controlled by the flags:
 - append a "..." to the produced string if the maximum length is exceeded
 - really fancy: print unicode characters as \N{...}
 
+NOTE: pv_display(), pv_uni_display(), sv_uni_display() are doing
+something like the above.
+
 =head2 Overloadable regex assertions
 
 This may or may not be possible with the current regular expression
@@ -73,19 +76,12 @@ C<\p{IsPs}>.
 
 =item *
 
-Allow for the metaproperties C<Any> and C<Assigned>, and C<Common>;
-C<Alphabetic>, C<Ideographic>, C<Lowercase>, C<Uppercase> (note that
-are large classes than the general categories C<Lu> and C<Ll>),
-C<White Space>, C<Bidi Control>, C<Join Control>, C<ASCII Hex Digit>,
-C<Hex Digit>, <Noncharacter Code Point>, C<ID Start>, C<ID Continue>,
-C<XID Start>, C<XID Continue>, C<NF*_NO>, C<NF*_MAYBE>.
+Allow for the metaproperties: C<XID Start>, C<XID Continue>,
+C<NF*_NO>, C<NF*_MAYBE> (require the DerivedCoreProperties and
+DerviceNormalizationProperties files).
 
-There are also enumerated properties: C<Decomposition Type>,
-C<Numeric Type>, C<East Asian Width>, C<Line Break>.  These
-properties have multiple values: for uniqueness the property
-value should be appended.  For example, C<\p{IsAlphabetic}>
-wouldbe the binary property, while C<\p{AlphabeticLineBreak}>
-would mean the enumerated property.
+There are also multiple value properties still unimplemented:
+C<Numeric Type>, C<East Asian Width>.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -196,11 +192,6 @@ Have a way to introduce user-defined opcodes without the subroutine call
 overhead of an XSUB; the user should be able to create PP code. Simon
 Cozens has some ideas on this.
 
-=head2 spawnvp() on Win32
-
-Win32 has problems spawning processes, particularly when the arguments
-to the child process contain spaces, quotes or tab characters.
-
 =head2 DLL Versioning
 
 Windows needs a way to know what version of a XS or C<libperl> DLL it's
@@ -305,7 +296,7 @@ That's to say, C<pack "(sI)40"> would be the same as C<pack "sI"x40>
 =head2 Cross compilation
 
 Make Perl buildable with a cross-compiler. This will play havoc with
-Configure, which needs to how how the target system will respond to
+Configure, which needs to know how the target system will respond to
 its tests; maybe C<microperl> will be a good starting point here.
 (Indeed, Bart Schuller reports that he compiled up C<microperl> for
 the Agenda PDA and it works fine.)  A really big spanner in the works
@@ -520,6 +511,12 @@ Hugo van der Sanden plans to look at this.
 This has been done in places, but needs a thorough code review.
 Also fchdir is available in some platforms.
 
+=head2 Make v-strings overloaded objects
+
+Instead of having to guess whether a string is a v-string and thus
+needs to be displayed with %vd, make v-strings (readonly) objects
+(class "vstring"?) with a stringify overload.
+
 =head1 Vague ideas
 
 Ideas which have been discussed, and which may or may not happen.