From perldelta: "This is supposed to be the final data for 6.2, unless glitches are found. The earlier experimental 6.2 beta data has been reverted, and this used instead. Not all the changes that were proposed for 6.2 and that were in the earlier beta versions are actually going into 6.2. In particular, there are no changes from 6.1 in the General_Category of any characters. 6.2 does revise the C<\X> handling for the REGIONAL INDICATOR characters that were added in Unicode 6.0. Perl now for the first time fully handles this revision." Unicode decided to extend the comment period on the General_Category changes to certain characters in the ASCII range from Punctuation to Symbol. See http://www.unicode.org/review/pri228/pri228-background.html and http://www.unicode.org/review/pri228/