at http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/03/wall.html Larry Wall writes: > > Perl 6 programs are notionally written in Unicode, and assume > Unicode semantics by default even when they happen to be > processing other character sets behind the scenes. Note that > when we say that Perl is written in Unicode, we're speaking of > an abstract character set, not any particular encoding. (The > typical program will likely be written in UTF-8 in the West, > and in some 16-bit character set in the East.) >
