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Re: [perl #131685] Rename utf8::is_utf8() (and other functions)

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From:
Sawyer X
Date:
July 20, 2017 20:47
Subject:
Re: [perl #131685] Rename utf8::is_utf8() (and other functions)
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3f4fb9a7-d7f1-1ed7-3f82-7a0eff4de0d4@gmail.com


On 07/20/2017 09:23 AM, Sawyer X wrote:
>
> On 07/20/2017 07:50 AM, Tony Cook via RT wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:58:39 -0700, tonyc wrote:
>>> which could perhaps use some expansion in perlunicode.
>> perlunitut covers this reasonably well.
>>
>>> I'm not sure where the cheat sheet following belongs, though
>>> perlunifaq covers some of it (though using Encode instead of utf8::*).
>> Attached is a series of patches (as a single file), the first three
>> fix some minor problems with the unicode documentation I found when
>> going through it.
>>
>> The fourth re-works the documentation in utf8.pm, taking bits from my little cheat sheet and hopefully putting them in the right places.
> Thank you, Tony.
>
> I have only two small nit-pickings on the patch: There's a typo for
> "convert" (says "comvert") and it uses "$a" in one of the examples which
> I think should be "$x" or some unreserved variable name, to avoid confusion.

For what it's worth, this received an offline +1 from rgs. :)

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