Create language/unicode page

[AlexDaniel]

<izmat> m: say "\c[woman facepalming]" # now that we can do this, maybe a docs.perl6.org page about emoji support would be applicable ?
<camelia> rakudo-moar 2a7c27: OUTPUT«🤦‍♀️␤»

And not just emojis, we should have a page with more information on how Perl 6 supports unicode and what features are there.

[AlexDaniel]

@samcv ? :)

[samcv]

Yeah this would be good. I will write something up :)

What is needed to add a new docs page? Just put a Pod file into the correct folder?

[jonathanstowe]

@samcv yes pretty much

[Altai-man]

The page is created - https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode, what features are missing there, but must be explained?

[AlexDaniel]

Something about normalization perhaps? And some links to other unicode pages?

[samcv]

• Normalization
• and something about utf8-c8,
• and filenames are reading using utf8-c8, if you want to retain text in non-normalized form you need to spurt and slurp using :enc('utf8-c8') and such as well.

[rafaelschipiura]

• It would also be nice to document the utf8 type.

[AlexDaniel]

For the third TODO item (utf8-c8) we now have:

• https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode#File_Handles_and_I/O
• https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode#UTF8-C8
• https://docs.perl6.org/language/traps#All_Text_is_Normalized_By_Default

For utf8 type:

• I created a separate issue: Document utf8 type #1516

The first TODO item is again mentioned here:

• https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode#File_Handles_and_I/O
• https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode#UTF8-C8
• https://docs.perl6.org/language/traps#All_Text_is_Normalized_By_Default
• But it feels like something is lacking, so I created this ticket: Document unicode normalization #1517