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perldelta: Move the XIDStart change from bugs to incompat.
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and reword it.

This is probably not the best wording. If someone else is actually
reading this, please feel free to improve it.
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Father Chrysostomos committed Apr 9, 2011
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because of a code generator) then avoid the error by adding a space before
the C<=>.

=head3 Change in the parsing of identifiers

Characters outside the Unicode "XIDStart" set are no longer allowed at the
beginning of an identifier. This affects that certain accents and marks
that normally follow an alphabetic character.

=head2 Threads and Processes

=head3 Directory handles not copied to threads
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=item *

Several contexts no longer allow a Unicode character to begin a word
that should never begin words, for an example an accent that must follow
another character previously could precede all other characters.

=item *

Defining a constant with the same name as one of perl's special blocks
(e.g., INIT) stopped working in 5.12.0, but has now been fixed
[perl #78634].
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