Unicode, Perl 6, and You

Day 7 in the ongoing Perl 6 advent calendar is concerned with how the language handles Unicode. "However, Perl 6 does this work for you, keeping track of these collections of codepoints internally, so that you just have to think in terms of what you would see the characters as. If you’ve ever had to dance around with substring operations to make sure you didn’t split between a letter and a diacritic, this will be your happiest day in programming."

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