In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated

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commit bc2161fd173adec3ad63b07a52ee224c89a45a4c
Author: Karl Williamson <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Apr 6 09:23:58 2015 -0600

    utfebcdic.h: Remove comments
    
    One is false, and one is addressed now in the perlebcdic.pod
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Summary of changes:
 utfebcdic.h | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utfebcdic.h b/utfebcdic.h
index edbe6aa..24101ed 100644
--- a/utfebcdic.h
+++ b/utfebcdic.h
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@
  * The EBCDIC invariants have been chosen to be those characters whose Unicode
  * equivalents have ordinal numbers less than 160, that is the same characters
  * that are expressible in ASCII, plus the C1 controls.  So there are 160
- * invariants instead of the 128 in UTF-8.  (My guess is that this is because
- * the C1 control NEL (and maybe others) is important in IBM.)
+ * invariants instead of the 128 in UTF-8.
  *
  * The purpose of Step 3 is to make the encoding be invariant for the chosen
  * characters.  This messes up the convenient patterns found in step 2, so
@@ -84,8 +83,6 @@
  * pages.  Best is to convert to I8 before sending them, as the I8
  * representation is the same no matter what the underlying code page is.
  *
- * tr16 also says that NEL and LF be swapped.  We don't do that.
- *
  * Because of the way UTF-EBCDIC is constructed, the lowest 32 code points that
  * aren't equivalent to ASCII characters nor C1 controls form the set of
  * continuation bytes; the remaining 64 non-ASCII, non-control code points form

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