[perl #77818] Teach Perl about Unicode named character sequences

On Sun Sep 12 21:29:22 2010, public@khwilliamson.com wrote:
> This series of commits mainly adds to Perl support for Unicode named 
> character sequences.  They still aren't accepted in regular expression 
> bracketed character classes, as those currently can handle only single 
> character elements.
> 
> There are also some small performance enhancements to charnames, and 
> more randomized testing.
> 
> This patch is also on github at git://github.com/khwilliamson/perl.git
> branch charnames.

These patches look fine to me, so I’ve just pushed them as:

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a6769a7827140e1470d8ef0f4e57f7643757ca72
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35a5ace5b48bd7ca4aef7f20f0f5843da3365ec3
a2cfe56dbcb3330a37926b668c136f00360986a0
9deebca376903e87a5f8496ce3baf418d3e9d0b7
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8ebef31d4feab4b7c35ff0eb427632a67b1abdd9
fb121860c2407cd1d1566d63a95a5220fa93d8e4
bcc08981dcac9739492da9cf6f4de3830c6a6a66
81965e2b9c462d35b04a8c01631dbb664e3b9431

I hope nobody kills me for doing that!

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