Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 10 12:28:57 2008 New Revision: 14485 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
Log: Some clarifications suggested by moritz++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Thu Jan 10 12:28:57 2008 @@ -192,9 +192,15 @@ The C<:ii> variant may be used on a substitution to change the substituted string to the same case pattern as the matched string. -Case info is carried across on a character by character basis. If -the right string is longer than the left one, the case of the final -character is replicated. +Case info is carried across on a character by character basis. If the +right string is longer than the left one, the case of the final +character is replicated. Titlecase is carried across if possible +regardless of whether the resulting letter is at the beginning of +a word or not; if there is no titlecase character available, the +corresponding uppercase character is used. (This policy can be +modified within a lexical scope by a language-dependent Unicode +declaration to substitute titlecase according to the orthographic +rules of the specified language.) =item * @@ -212,7 +218,8 @@ substituted string to the same accent pattern as the matched string. Accent info is carried across on a character by character basis. If the right string is longer than the left one, the remaining characters -are substituted without any modification. +are substituted without any modification. (Note that NFD/NFC distinctions +are usually immaterial, since Perl encapsulates that in grapheme mode.) =item *
