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perldelta
authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:27:16 +0000 (01:27 -0700)
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:31:27 +0000 (01:31 -0700)
pod/perldelta.pod

index c7411ff..da26157 100644 (file)
@@ -417,6 +417,13 @@ undone when the pattern matching backtracked over the code block.
 Using C<substr()> to modify a magic variable could access freed memory
 in some cases.  [perl #129340]
 
+=item *
+
+Perl 5.25.9 was fixed so that under C<use utf8>, the entire Perl program
+is checked that the UTF-8 is wellformed.  It turns out that several edge
+cases were missed, and are now fixed.  [perl #126310] was the original
+ticket.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems