Matching alphabetic wide characters
Author: stmuk
You want to match alphabetic characters which include unicode
Source code: 06-02-match-letters.p6
#!/usr/bin/env perl6 use v6; my $var = "\c[OGHAM LETTER RUIS]"; if $var ~~ /^<:letter>+$/ { # or just /^<:L>+$/ or even /^\w+$/ say "{$var} is purely alphabetic"; }