From 5f37c4c6e33395fdc40a8fea472b2584adf92164 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Williamson Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:11:51 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] perlunitut: clarification --- pod/perlunitut.pod | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlunitut.pod b/pod/perlunitut.pod index fc352d5..9e5af04 100644 --- a/pod/perlunitut.pod +++ b/pod/perlunitut.pod @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ distinction between code point and character is blurred, so the terms often are used interchangeably.) There are many, many code points, but computers work with bytes, and a byte has -room for only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters, so you need a -method to make these accessible. +room for only 256 values. Unicode has many more characters than that, +so you need a method to make these accessible. Unicode is encoded using several competing encodings, of which UTF-8 is the most used. In a Unicode encoding, multiple subsequent bytes can be used to -- 2.7.4