Note a new thing to check for each new release of Perl

diff --git a/lib/unicore/README.perl b/lib/unicore/README.perl
index 59d66a8..bbfcc3d 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/unicore/README.perl
+++ b/lib/unicore/README.perl
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ mktables can continue to be used for earlier Unicode versions.
 When putting out a new Perl release, think about if any of the Deprecated
 properties should be moved to Suppressed.
 
+perlrecharclass.pod has a list of all the characters that are white space,
+which needs to be updated if there are changes.  A quick way to check if there
+have been changes would be to see if the number of such characters listed in
+perluniprops.pod (generated by running mktables) for the property
+\p{White_Space} is no longer 26.  Further investigation would then be necessary
+to classify the new characters as horizontal and vertical.
+
 The code in regexec.c for the \X match construct is intimately tied to the
 regular expression in UAX #29 (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/).  You
 should see if it has changed, and if so regexec.c should be modified.  The