Change 22534 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2004/03/19 10:13:14
Nit in perluniintro about the U0 and C0 templates,
noticed by Steve Hay.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perluniintro.pod#59 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perluniintro.pod#59 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perluniintro.pod
--- perl/pod/perluniintro.pod#58~22444~ Fri Mar 5 13:19:06 2004
+++ perl/pod/perluniintro.pod Fri Mar 19 02:13:14 2004
@@ -246,16 +246,14 @@
constants: you cannot use variables in them. if you want similar
run-time functionality, use C<chr()> and C<charnames::vianame()>.
-Also note that if all the code points for pack "U" are below 0x100,
-bytes will be generated, just like if you were using C<chr()>.
-
- my $bytes = pack("U*", 0x80, 0xFF);
-
If you want to force the result to Unicode characters, use the special
C<"U0"> prefix. It consumes no arguments but forces the result to be
in Unicode characters, instead of bytes.
- my $chars = pack("U0U*", 0x80, 0xFF);
+ my $chars = pack("U0C*", 0x80, 0xFF);
+
+Likewise, you can force the result to be bytes by using the special
+C<"C0"> prefix.
=head2 Handling Unicode
End of Patch.
