Is \w defined as on purpose?
yes
It is not in perl5
no?
With the very good reason that it matches combining chars for example
m: say 'xyz̧p' ~~ /\w+/
rakudo-moar 4cad54: OUTPUT«｢xyz｣»
those are meant to be deal with at grapheme level in p6
Right; that's a lack of NFG...
oh, so the abov
On Mon Apr 27 06:20:19 2009, hel...@wollmersdorfer.at wrote:
> $ ./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, COMBINING DOT ABOVE]".ord;'
> 65
> $ ./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE]".ord;'
> 550
>
> Both results should be the same in grapheme mode. Grapheme mode is default.
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$ ./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, COMBINING DOT ABOVE]".ord;'
65
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