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Porters, A mere seven and a half years ago, I said it would be nice to get more bracketing pairs available in non-ASCII source. Here's the message: http://markmail.org/message/sfq7ahm3axbivgze I still think we should do this. Unicode provides a thing called bracket pairs <https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn39/>. These are pairs of characters that have an opening and a closing character and can enclose a run of other characters. Each pair has an opening and closing character. I think that when processing utf-8 source (under "use utf8") we could treat these pairs as paired delimiters for quote-like operators. For example my @words = qw〔 bingo bango bongo 〕; To match the behavior of ASCII brackets, these would nest. my $string = q⌜This string contains ⌜ and ⌟ which is fine.⌟; I can write this up as an RFC if there's general interest. -- rjbsThread Next