&gt; Don’t worry though, standard Perl 6 does not demand that you be able to type Unicode. If you can’t, there are so-called “Texas” variants:<p>I&#x27;ve always loved the &quot;everything&#x27;s bigger in Texas&quot; joke implicit inthe &quot;texas&quot; variant on some operators.<p>&gt; If you’re interested in working within a particular normalization, there’s the self-explanatory types of NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD.<p>That would probably be better with a &quot;Well, it&#x27;s self explanatory at the point you know you want to work in a particular normalization&quot;, since I only vaguely know what those are, and I&#x27;ve beenhearing about some of them for years. ;)<p>Great post though!