from cover to cover, Perl does support many Unicode features.
People who want to learn to use Unicode in Perl, should probably read
-the L<Perl Unicode tutorial, perlunitut|perlunitut>, before reading
+the L<Perl Unicode tutorial, perlunitut|perlunitut> and
+L<perluniintro>, before reading
this reference document.
Also, the use of Unicode may present security issues that aren't obvious.
compatibility and chooses to use byte semantics.
When C<use locale> is in effect (which overrides
-C<use feature 'unicode_strings'>), Perl uses the semantics associated
+C<use feature 'unicode_strings'> in the same scope), Perl uses the
+semantics associated
with the current locale. Otherwise, Perl uses the platform's native
byte semantics for characters whose code points are less than 256, and
Unicode semantics for those greater than 255. On EBCDIC platforms, this