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Graphemes rather than characters (Score:1)
Just a quibble, but I believe it is more correct to say a string in Perl 6 is made up of graphemes rather than characters. The two Perl 5 strings "\x{F6}" (LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS) (and "\x{6F}\x{308}" (LATIN SMALL LETTER O and COMBINING DIAERESIS) should be the same string in Perl 6 (unless the codes pragma is turned on).
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Yes, you are right. The Perl 6 spec is full of references to "characters", but in a few places it mentions that this term defaults to being the same as "graphemes".
I think my growing familiarity with Unicode is not yet at the stage where I immediately reach for the term "graphemes". :) Maybe some day.