To expand on the point a bit, doing exactly the same spurt/slurp works
with "utf8", but doing it with "utf16" fails to read the text back in:
{
my $unichar_str =# ሀⶀ䷼ꪪⲤⲎ
"\x[1200]\x[2D80]\x[4DFC]\x[]\x[2CA4]\x[2C8E]";
my $file = "/tmp/stuff_in_utf8.txt";
my $fh = $file.
Looking at the documentation for slurp, it looks as though there's a
convenient "enc" option you can use if you're not reading utf8 files.
So I thought this would work:
my $contents = slurp $file, enc => "utf16";
It's not doing what I expected... Raku acts like there's nothing in $contents.
H
