From: Karl Williamson Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:22:39 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Note a new thing to check for each new release of Perl X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=272d2fccdd8295527af922a2af84ef7205338f65;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git 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 --- 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