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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/charnames.pm b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/charnames.pm
index 97cafed73ea..2efe3d58b27 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/charnames.pm
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/charnames.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
package charnames;
use strict;
use warnings;
-our $VERSION = '1.40';
+our $VERSION = '1.43';
use unicore::Name; # mktables-generated algorithmically-defined names
use _charnames (); # The submodule for this where most of the work gets done
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ sub vianame
# can't change it because of backward compatibility. New code can use
# string_vianame() instead.
my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
- return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
+ return pack("U", $ord) if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
_charnames::carp _charnames::not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
return;
}
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ sub string_vianame {
if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
- return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
+ return pack("U", $ord) if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
_charnames::carp _charnames::not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
return;
@@ -280,7 +280,9 @@ Aliases must begin with a character that is alphabetic. After that, each may
contain any combination of word (C<\w>) characters, SPACE (U+0020),
HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D), LEFT PARENTHESIS (U+0028), RIGHT PARENTHESIS (U+0029),
and NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0). These last three should never have been allowed
-in names, and are retained for backwards compatibility only; they may be
+in names, and are retained for backwards compatibility only; NO-BREAK SPACE IS
+currently deprecated and scheduled for removal in Perl v5.26; the other two
+may also be
deprecated and removed in future releases of Perl, so don't use them for new
names. (More precisely, the first character of a name you specify must be
something that matches all of C<\p{ID_Start}>, C<\p{Alphabetic}>, and
@@ -295,7 +297,7 @@ matched name) or to a
numeric code point (ordinal). The latter is useful for assigning names
to code points in Unicode private use areas such as U+E800 through
U+F8FF.
-A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer or a string beginning
+A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer, or a string beginning
with C<"U+"> or C<"0x"> with the remainder considered to be a
hexadecimal integer. A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains