Deparse require vstring without parens

[perl5.git] / lib / charnames.pm

diff --git a/lib/charnames.pm b/lib/charnames.pm
index d33b787..2efe3d5 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/charnames.pm
+++ b/lib/charnames.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package charnames;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-our $VERSION = '1.41';
+our $VERSION = '1.43';
 use unicore::Name;    # mktables-generated algorithmically-defined names
 use _charnames ();    # The submodule for this where most of the work gets done
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ sub vianame
     # can't change it because of backward compatibility.  New code can use
     # string_vianame() instead.
     my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
-    return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
+    return pack("U", $ord) if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
     _charnames::carp _charnames::not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
     return;
   }
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ sub string_vianame {
   if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
 
     my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
-    return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
+    return pack("U", $ord) if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
 
     _charnames::carp _charnames::not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
     return;
@@ -280,7 +280,9 @@ Aliases must begin with a character that is alphabetic.  After that, each may
 contain any combination of word (C<\w>) characters, SPACE (U+0020),
 HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D), LEFT PARENTHESIS (U+0028), RIGHT PARENTHESIS (U+0029),
 and NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0).  These last three should never have been allowed
-in names, and are retained for backwards compatibility only; they may be
+in names, and are retained for backwards compatibility only; NO-BREAK SPACE IS
+currently deprecated and scheduled for removal in Perl v5.26; the other two
+may also be
 deprecated and removed in future releases of Perl, so don't use them for new
 names.  (More precisely, the first character of a name you specify must be
 something that matches all of C<\p{ID_Start}>, C<\p{Alphabetic}>, and
@@ -295,7 +297,7 @@ matched name) or to a
 numeric code point (ordinal).  The latter is useful for assigning names
 to code points in Unicode private use areas such as U+E800 through
 U+F8FF.
-A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer or a string beginning
+A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer, or a string beginning
 with C<"U+"> or C<"0x"> with the remainder considered to be a
 hexadecimal integer.  A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
 will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains