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";
}