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[perl #107008] UTF8 patches for 5.16

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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
March 21, 2012 20:20
Subject:
[perl #107008] UTF8 patches for 5.16
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-4610-1332386444-1160.107008-15-0@perl.org
On Wed Mar 21 18:49:00 2012, Hugmeir wrote:
> > I’ve begun work on the patches following that.  I need to ask Brian
> > Fraser about
> > <
> > https://github.com/Hugmeir/gsoc-pad-utf8-
> safety/commit/4929775f6218457e97e9c11e8b1fcfce20b6316f
> > >.
> >  Unicode delimiters are not going to go into 5.16, so this patch is
> > unnecessary for now, right?
> >
> 
> I would say throw it out, yes. The one thing it might have fixed
> (unintendedly, and definitely without tests) is the error message in
> 
> use open qw( :utf8 :std );
> use utf8;
> use 5.014;
> 
> eval "q\x{FF01}asdasd\n\x{FF01}say 1";
> say $@;
> 
> But that can be properly addressed later.

Er, that might explain why the tests added by 6961eeb7b3 (toke.c:
S_missingterm cleanup) are failing for me. :-)

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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