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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
April 13, 2011 17:24
Subject:
Re: PATCH to perlunicode.pod
Message ID:
4DA63E56.40306@khwilliamson.com
On 4/13/2011 5:51 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>

"characters" should just be dropped, or a with or whose added.

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