puts \u30b3\u30fc\u30d2\u30fc has worked for some time now; the [string] subcommands are documented as not working as part of the tcl language suite testing.
If we find any parrot-specific issues blocking us from implementation, we'll open another ticket. Danke. > [coke - Sun Nov 21 22:51:03 2004]: > > Need unicode support for \u escapes, and for "string wordend", > "string wordstart", "string is", "string bytelength", etc. > > You can currently create unicode strings in parrot, but you can't get > them into utf-8, which means you can't easily print them out. > >
