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I was just posting that. On 4/24/20, Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > > >> On 24 Apr 2020, at 22:03, Joseph Brenner <doomvox@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks, yes I understand unicode and utf-8 reasonably well. >> >>> So Rakudo has to read the next codepoint to make sure that it isn't a >>> combining codepoint. >> >>> It is probably faking up the reads to look right when reading ASCII, but >>> failing to do that for wider codepoints. >> >> I think it'd be the other way around... the idea here would be it's >> doing an extra readchar behind the scenes just in-case there's >> combining chars involved-- so you're figuring there's some confusion >> about the actual point in the file that's being read and the >> abstraction that readchars is supplying? > > What does .tell say before and after the readchars? >Thread Previous