Perl 5.8 release documentation query

rakesh1377 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Perl 5.8 release document says...........

The tr///C and tr///U features have been removed and will not return; the interface was a mistake. Sorry about that. For similar functionality, see pack('U0', ...) and pack('C0', ...).

my question is what does that mean. Anybody please give me example of output using tr and also with pack

update (broquaint): added formatting

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Re: Perl 5.8 release documentation query
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jun 18, 2003 at 10:50 UTC

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse/perl5-porters?query=tr///U

update: hopefully. It had something to do with packing characters to unicode.

Here go some links

tr///CU and tr///UC ^(
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Re: Perl 5.8 release documentation query
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 18, 2003 at 11:02 UTC

I wouldn't worry about it - it was as far as I know never implemented in a stable version of Perl. These flags were an attempt to put unicode support in tr// as I understand it.

/J\

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