From: Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:38:02 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: import perldelta from eb83ed8 into release branch
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~136
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=449d51201e1e190f607140ea36e19d68437c3978;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

import perldelta from eb83ed8 into release branch
---

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index b355569..535604b 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1823,6 +1823,16 @@ string (0 is the return), and overlong UTF-8 sequences.
 
 =item *
 
+The returned code point from the function C<utf8n_to_uvuni()>
+when the input is malformed UTF-8, malformations are allowed, and
+C<utf8> warnings are off is now the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
+whenever the malformation is such that no well-defined code point can be
+computed.  Previously the returned value was essentially garbage.  The
+only malformations that have well-defined values are a zero-length
+string (0 is the return), and overlong UTF-8 sequences.
+
+=item *
+
 Padlists are now marked C<AvREAL>; i.e., reference-counted.  They have
 always been reference-counted, but were not marked real, because F<pad.c>
 did its own clean-up, instead of using the usual clean-up code in F<sv.c>.