I've been reading the documentation for Perl 6, aka "Raku"...and I think I'm falling in love again. Unlike Perl 5, Raku is UTF8-based, both in its code, and its I/O.

In their words...from the "Lexical Conventions" entry HERE:

Raku code is Unicode text. Current implementations support UTF-8 as the input encoding. See also Unicode versus ASCII symbols.
And from the "Normalization" entry HERE:
Raku applies normalization by default to all input and output except for file names, which are read and written as UTF8-C8; graphemes, which are user-visible forms of the characters, will use a normalized representation.
Everything I've been reading, fits what I've been needing. Perhaps it's time for a new language. I'm on the verge of taking that plunge. The UTF8 issue has been troublesome for me with Perl5 for a long time, and is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back--perhaps the pun is fitting.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^2: Converting Unicode by Polyglot
in thread Converting Unicode by BernieC

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