Where
perlretut
Description
I would update the bold from:
"The answer to 1) is that Unicode characters greater than chr(255) are represented using the \x{hex} notation, because \xXY (without curly braces and XY are two hex digits) doesn't go further than 255. (Starting in Perl 5.14, if you're an octal fan, you can also use \o{oct}.)"
To:
"without curly braces, XY are two hex digits"