# New Ticket Created by Helmut Wollmersdorfer # Please include the string: [perl #65170] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=65170 >
$ ./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE, COMBINING DOT BELOW]".chars;' 2 Expected result: 1 $ ./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, COMBINING DOT ABOVE, COMBINING DOT BELOW]".chars;' 3 Expected result: 1 see specs: http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod ----quote---- A Str can exist at several Unicode levels at once. Which level you interact with typically depends on what your current lexical context has declared the "working Unicode level to be". Default is C<Grapheme>. ----end of quote--- Helmut Wollmersdorfer