Change 11024 by jhi@alpha on 2001/06/29 12:39:23
Update the sv_pvprintify() spec.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perltodo.pod#24 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perltodo.pod#24 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perltodo.pod
--- perl/pod/perltodo.pod.~1~ Fri Jun 29 06:45:05 2001
+++ perl/pod/perltodo.pod Fri Jun 29 06:45:05 2001
@@ -36,17 +36,20 @@
Requirements: should handle both byte and UTF8 strings. isPRINT()
characters printed as-is, character less than 256 as \xHH, Unicode
-characters as \x{HHH}.
+characters as \x{HHH}. Don't assume ASCII-like, either, get somebody
+on EBCDIC to test the output.
Possible options, controlled by the flags:
-- whitespace (other than ' ' of isPRINTF()) printed as-is
+- whitespace (other than ' ' of isPRINT()) printed as-is
- use isPRINT_LC() instead of isPRINT()
- print control characters like this: "\cA"
- print control characters like this: "^A"
-- non-printables printed as '.' instead of \xHH
-- print the \OOO instead of \xHH
+- non-PRINTables printed as '.' instead of \xHH
+- use \OOO instead of \xHH
+- use the C/Perl-metacharacters like \n, \t
- have a maximum length for the produced string (read it from *lenp)
- append a "..." to the produced string if the maximum length is exceeded
+- really fancy: print unicode characters as \N{...}
=head2 Autoload byte.pm
End of Patch.
