pod nits

diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index b9b3106..b2ba390 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -1922,8 +1922,10 @@ One can also use short names or restrict names to a certain alphabet:
     use charnames qw(greek);
     print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma\n";
 
-A list of full names can be found in F<NamesList.txt> in the Unicode standard
-(available at L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/>).
+An index of character names is available on-line from the Unicode
+Consortium, L<http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html>; explanatory
+material with links to other resources at
+L<http://www.unicode.org/standard/where>.
 
 The answer to requirement 2) is, as of 5.6.0, that a regexp (mostly)
 uses Unicode characters.  (The "mostly" is for messy backward

diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index 0d8bd1a..2529c97 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ Alternatively, you can use the C<\x{...}> notation for characters 0x100 and
 above.  For characters below 0x100 you may get byte semantics instead of
 character semantics;  see L</The "Unicode Bug">.  On EBCDIC machines there is
 the additional problem that the value for such characters gives the EBCDIC
-character rather than the Unicode one.
+character rather than the Unicode one, thus it is more portable to use
+C<\N{U+...}> instead.
 
 Additionally, if you