Markus Kuhn wrote in perl.unicode : > I have just read the utf8(3pm) man page as it comes with perl v5.8.8 and > I'm afraid, I found it *very* confusing and well below the generally > very high standards of clarity found in most of the Perl documentation.
The documentation on Unicode has been largely reworked in the development sources of Perl. I think you'll find the documentation shipped with 5.10.0 a bit clearer (and a bit less scary:) -- The literature of Uqbar was one of fantasy and that its epics and legends never referred to reality, but to the two imaginary regions of Mlejnas and Tlön. -- Borges