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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
April 13, 2011 16:51
Subject:
Re: PATCH to perlunicode.pod
Message ID:
17277.1302738674@chthon
>>
>> That (still) makes no sense to me.  Here's the wording I came up with that
>> reflects what I *thought* it was trying to say:
>>
>>      In C<quotemeta>  or its inline equivalent C<\Q>, no characters
>>      code points above 127 are quoted in UTF-8 encoded strings, but in
>>      byte encoded strings, code points between 128-255 are always quoted.

> That is a 5.14 regression, and I had it wrong.  Either the original 
> email or ticket was wrong about this, or I misread it, and didn't do the 
> legwork of checking it out.  Now that I have, I see that your rewording 
> is correct.

Thanks.

There's a word dropped there somewhere, either a "with" or a "whose"
between "characters" and "code points". 

--tom

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