From: Karl Williamson Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:15:33 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Nits in perlunifaq.pod X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a6886e11852fe0574d7a8988b1e36ca4b7896b7;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Nits in perlunifaq.pod --- diff --git a/pod/perlunifaq.pod b/pod/perlunifaq.pod index 89cbad3..ab42ff1 100644 --- a/pod/perlunifaq.pod +++ b/pod/perlunifaq.pod @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ To find out which character encodings your Perl supports, run: =head2 Which version of perl should I use? Well, if you can, upgrade to the most recent, but certainly C<5.8.1> or newer. -The tutorial and FAQ are based on the status quo as of C<5.8.8>. +The tutorial and FAQ assume the latest release. You should also check your modules, and upgrade them if necessary. For example, HTML::Entities requires version >= 1.32 to function correctly, even though the @@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ use C, C<_utf8_on> or C<_utf8_off> at all. The UTF8 flag, also called SvUTF8, is an internal flag that indicates that the current internal representation is UTF-8. Without the flag, it is assumed to be -ISO-8859-1. Perl converts between these automatically. (Actually Perl assumes -the representation is ASCII; see L above.) +ISO-8859-1. Perl converts between these automatically. (Actually Perl usually +assumes the representation is ASCII; see L above.) One of Perl's internal formats happens to be UTF-8. Unfortunately, Perl can't keep a secret, so everyone knows about this. That is the source of much