The wording in the description of the 'w' pack conversion in perlfunc.pod
is misleading - it says BER, which usually refers to ASN.1 BER, but in
this case refers to a "Binary Encoded Representation" as defined by the
Scarab project at http://www.casbah.org/Scarab/binary-serialization.html
This patch adds clarifying text.
Alexey
--- perl-5.9.2/pod/perlfunc.pod 2005-04-01 04:43:07.000000000 -0500
+++ perlmine/pod/perlfunc.pod 2005-04-25 12:04:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -3358,10 +3358,10 @@
U A Unicode character number. Encodes to UTF-8 internally
(or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC platforms).
- w A BER compressed integer. Its bytes represent an unsigned
- integer in base 128, most significant digit first, with as
- few digits as possible. Bit eight (the high bit) is set
- on each byte except the last.
+ w A BER (not ASN.1 BER, see casbah.org) compressed integer.
+ Its bytes represent an unsigned integer in base 128, most
+ significant digit first, with as few digits as possible. Bit
+ eight (the high bit) is set on each byte except the last.
x A null byte.
X Back up a byte.--- perl-5.9.2/pod/perlfunc.pod 2005-04-01 04:43:07.000000000 -0500
+++ perlmine/pod/perlfunc.pod 2005-04-25 12:04:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -3358,10 +3358,10 @@
U A Unicode character number. Encodes to UTF-8 internally
(or UTF-EBCDIC in EBCDIC platforms).
- w A BER compressed integer. Its bytes represent an unsigned
- integer in base 128, most significant digit first, with as
- few digits as possible. Bit eight (the high bit) is set
- on each byte except the last.
+ w A BER (not ASN.1 BER, see casbah.org) compressed integer.
+ Its bytes represent an unsigned integer in base 128, most
+ significant digit first, with as few digits as possible. Bit
+ eight (the high bit) is set on each byte except the last.
x A null byte.
X Back up a byte.
