=item *
File handles can be marked as accepting Perl's internal encoding of Unicode
-(UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC depending on platfrom) by a pseudo layer ":utf8" :
+(UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC depending on platform) by a pseudo layer ":utf8" :
open($fh,">:utf8","Uni.txt");
=item *
-B::Concise is a new compiler backend for walking the Perl syntax tree,
+B::Concise is a new compiler back end for walking the Perl syntax tree,
printing concise info about ops. The output is highly customizable,
-so customizable that B::Terse has been reimplemented in terms of
+so customizable that B::Terse has been re-implemented in terms of
B::Concise.
=item *
=item *
-Digest, a frontend module for calculating digests (checksums),
+Digest, a front end module for calculating digests (checksums),
from Gisle Aas, has been added.
=item *
=item *
-Filter::Simple is an easy-to-use frontend to Filter::Util::Call,
+Filter::Simple is an easy-to-use front end to Filter::Util::Call,
from Damian Conway.
=item *
Filter::Util::Call, from Paul Marquess, provides you with the
framework to write I<Source Filters> in Perl. For most uses
-the frontend Filter::Simple is to be preferred.
+the front end Filter::Simple is to be preferred.
=item *
=item *
-XS::Typemap is a test extension that exercizes XS typemaps.
+XS::Typemap is a test extension that exercises XS typemaps.
Nothing gets installed but for extension writers the code is
worth studying.
=item *
B::Deparse should be now more robust (still far from providing a full
-roundtrip for any random piece of Perl code).
+round trip for any random piece of Perl code).
=item *
=item
IO::Socket::INET has support for ReusePort option (if your platform
-suppport it). The Reuse option has now an alias, ReuseAddr.
+supports it). The Reuse option has now an alias, ReuseAddr.
=item *
=head2 README.aix
Documentation on compiling Perl on AIX has been added. AIX has
-several different C compilers and getting the right patchlevel
+several different C compilers and getting the right patch level
is essential. On install README.aix will be installed as L<perlaix>.
=head2 README.bs2000
-Documentation on compling Perl on the POSIX-BC platform (an EBCDIC
+Documentation on compiling Perl on the POSIX-BC platform (an EBCDIC
mainframe environment) has been added.
This was formerly known as README.posix-bc but the name was considered
MacOS Classic (MacPerl has of course been available since
perl 5.004 but now the source code bases of standard Perl
-and MacPerl have been synchronised)
+and MacPerl have been synchronized)
=item *
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
-analysed by the Perl porting team.
+analyzed by the Perl porting team.
=head1 SEE ALSO