> On 24 Apr 2020, at 22:03, Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, yes I understand unicode and utf-8 reasonably well.
>
>> So Rakudo has to read the next codepoint to make sure that it isn't a
>> combining codepoint.
>
>> It is probably faking up the reads to look right when reading ASCII, but
>> failing to do that for wider codepoints.
>
> I think it'd be the other way around... the idea here would be it's
> doing an extra readchar behind the scenes just in-case there's
> combining chars involved-- so you're figuring there's some confusion
> about the actual point in the file that's being read and the
> abstraction that readchars is supplying?
What does .tell say before and after the readchars?
