You won't believe it :-) but Raku's wonderful documentation has a page on how to enter Unicode characters:
https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_entry That page also links to a GitHub project which offers a .XCompose ready to use. I started from that and added some faster and easier (for me) to remember key combinations, such as for example: <Super_L> <L> : "｢" UFF62 <Super_L> <l> : "｣" UFF63 which use the left "Win" key as a dead key, followed by 'l' or 'L' to produce the Japanese quoting characters. On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 1:56 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 12:51 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > <perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a `Q[]` that can be used in a regex? > > > > I am looking for how to get around > > > > my $x = Q[\:\\::]; ( my $y = $x ) ~~ s/ '\\\\' /x/; say $y > > \:x:: > > > > This does not work: > > my $x = Q[\:\\::]; ( my $y = $x ) ~~ s/ Q[\\] /x/; say $y > > \:\\:: > > > > Nor does this: > > my $x = Q[\:\\::]; ( my $y = $x ) ~~ s/ [\\] /x/; say $y > > x:\\:: > > > > Many thanks, > > -T > > On 2019-12-07 07:02, Brad Gilbert wrote: > > The shortcut spelling of Q[…] is to use ｢ and ｣ (U+FF62 and U+FF63) > > > > my $x = ｢\:\\::｣; ( my $y = $x ) ~~ s/ ｢\\｣ /x/; say $y > > \:\\:: > > > > The case could be made that \Q[\\] should work as well. (It would need > > to be added). > > (Along with \q[…] and \qq[…]) > > > > Note that \Q[…] doesn't work in string literals currently either. While > > \q[…] and \qq[…] do. > > > > > "\q[\n]\n" > > \n > > > > > '\n\qq[\n]' > > \n > > > > Note that single and double quotes also work in regexs. > > > > The three of them ('…' "…" ｢…｣) have a few jobs. > > > > 1. They escape spaces and other non-alphanumerics. > > > > > 'a b c' ~~ / 'a b c' / > > Nil > > > 'a b c A B C' ~~ / :i 'a b c' / > > A B C > > > > > 'a b c' ~~ / 'a . c' / > > Nil > > > 'a . c' ~~ / 'a . c' / > > a . c > > > > Note that the rules for the string literal still apply. > > > > > "abc\n" ~~ / 'abc\n' / > > Nil > > > "abc\n" ~~ / "abc\n" / > > abc > > > > 2. They group characters as a single atom. > > (Meaning they behave a bit like [] in a regex) > > > > > 'abccd' ~~ / 'abc'+ d / > > Nil > > > 'abccd' ~~ / [abc]+ d / > > Nil > > > > > 'abccd' ~~ / abc+ d / > > abccd > > > > > 'abccd abcABCabcd' ~~ / :i 'abc'+ d / > > abcABCabcd > > > 'abccd abcABCabcd' ~~ / :i [abc]+ d / > > abcABCabcd > > > > Note that '…' in a regex behaves like '…' outside of one, as well as "…" > > behaving like "…" and ｢…｣ behaving like ｢…｣ > > Hi Brad, > > That was above and beyond! Thank you! > > my $x = Q[\:\\::]; ( my $y = $x ) ~~ s/ ｢\\｣ /x/; say $y > \:x:: > > What is the easiest way to get those weird brackets in Fedora31? > > -T > -- Fernando Santagata
