From: Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:18:36 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Document that there are bugs with EBCDIC and regexes
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Document that there are bugs with EBCDIC and regexes
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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index b6a73c0..014f921 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -2163,6 +2163,8 @@ for ASCII characters.  For example,
 C<m/[\N{CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A}-\N{CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA}]/i>
 doesn't match all the Russian upper and lower case letters.
 
+Many regular expression constructs don't work on EBCDIC platforms.
+
 This document varies from difficult to understand to completely
 and utterly opaque.  The wandering prose riddled with jargon is
 hard to fathom in several places.