I am not sure what the right strategy is ... Perl 5 seems to work mainly because they use the ANSI interfaces to get environment variables ... which means you can't get the value of $ENV{iş}.
I opened this issue because I am going to think about it and thought there should be something to reference. The simple solution seems to work, but I do believe case needs to be preserved. Anyway, this is a low priority issue and I am not even certain any part of the Perl 6 machinery needs to be involved. Maybe it's sufficient for client programs to case fold when looking for keys. -- Sinan