--- embedaddon/pcre/doc/perltest.txt	2012/02/21 23:05:52	1.1.1.1
+++ embedaddon/pcre/doc/perltest.txt	2013/07/22 08:25:56	1.1.1.2
@@ -14,30 +14,29 @@ other pcretest modifiers that are either handled or ig
   /W   ignored
   /S   ignored
   /SS  ignored
+  /Y   ignored
 
-The data lines are processed as Perl double-quoted strings, so if they contain
-" $ or @ characters, these have to be escaped. For this reason, all such
-characters in testinput1, testinput4, testinput6, and testinput11 are escaped
-so that they can be used for perltest as well as for pcretest. The pcretest \Y
-escape in data lines is removed.
+The pcretest \Y escape in data lines is removed before matching. The data lines
+are processed as Perl double-quoted strings, so if they contain " $ or @
+characters, these have to be escaped. For this reason, all such characters in
+the Perl-compatible testinput1 file are escaped so that they can be used for
+perltest as well as for pcretest. The special upper case pattern modifiers such
+as /A that pcretest recognizes, and its special data line escapes, are not used
+in the Perl-compatible test file. The output should be identical, apart from
+the initial identifying banner.
 
-The special upper case pattern modifiers such as /A that pcretest recognizes,
-and its special data line escapes, are not used in these files. The output
-should be identical, apart from the initial identifying banner.
-
 The perltest.pl script can also test UTF-8 features. It recognizes the special
 modifier /8 that pcretest uses to invoke UTF-8 functionality. The testinput4
 and testinput6 files can be fed to perltest to run compatible UTF-8 tests.
-However, it is necessary to add "use utf8;" to the script to make this work
-correctly.
+However, it is necessary to add "use utf8; require Encode" to the script to
+make this work correctly. I have not managed to find a way to handle this
+automatically.
 
-The testinput11 file contains tests that use features of Perl 5.10, so does not
-work with Perl 5.8.
-
 The other testinput files are not suitable for feeding to perltest.pl, since
 they make use of the special upper case modifiers and escapes that pcretest
-uses to test some features of PCRE. Some of these files also contains malformed
-regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them correctly.
+uses to test certain features of PCRE. Some of these files also contain
+malformed regular expressions, in order to check that PCRE diagnoses them
+correctly.
 
 Philip Hazel
-August 2011
+January 2012