From 2d9fd32b7bfb86729a2b5f0f3f0ab72e16207bf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Williamson Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:06:24 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] perldelta for #23779: 255 token chars --- pod/perldelta.pod | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 0087ccac2c41..147ab795c621 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -366,7 +366,12 @@ manager will later use a regex to expand these into links. =item * -XXX +We have long claimed to support identifiers up to about 255 characters +long. However this was actually true only for identifiers that +consisted of only ASCII characters. The real upper limit was as few as +64 characters for identifiers written in other languages, for example, +Chinese or Osage. Now an identifier in any language may contain at +least 255 characters. =back