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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-02-25 18:48:50 -0700
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-02-28 10:15:20 -1000
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Document Unicode case-insensitive [] range bug
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@@ -2152,6 +2152,11 @@ Subroutine call to a named capture buffer. Equivalent to C<< (?&NAME) >>.
=head1 BUGS
+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>
+doesn't match all the Russian upper and lower case letters.
+
This document varies from difficult to understand to completely
and utterly opaque. The wandering prose riddled with jargon is
hard to fathom in several places.