X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/80008eb3e450496f17610b8bfc820f627a758a13..a1b1d0558e4f9a299f56def4b6400355a161005f:/pod/perlunitut.pod diff --git a/pod/perlunitut.pod b/pod/perlunitut.pod index fc352d5..9e5af04 100644 --- a/pod/perlunitut.pod +++ b/pod/perlunitut.pod @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ distinction between code point and character is blurred, so the terms often are used interchangeably.) There are many, many code points, but computers work with bytes, and a byte has -room for only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters, so you need a -method to make these accessible. +room for only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters than that, +so you need a method to make these accessible. Unicode is encoded using several competing encodings, of which UTF-8 is the most used. In a Unicode encoding, multiple subsequent bytes can be used to