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Document some re bugs in perlre.pod
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Karl Williamson
<khw@khw-desktop.(none)>
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:45:11 +0000
(20:45 -0700)
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Jesse Vincent
<jesse@bestpractical.com>
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:15:21 +0000
(10:15 -1000)
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Subroutine call to a named capture buffer. Equivalent to C<< (?&NAME) >>.
=head1 BUGS
+There are numerous problems with case insensitive matching of characters
+outside the ASCII range, especially with those whose folds are multiple
+characters, such as ligatures like C<LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF>.
+
In a bracketed character class with case insensitive matching, ranges only work
for ASCII characters. For example,
C<m/[\N{CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A}-\N{CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA}]/i>