Base 16 radix using unicode 16-full-stop (U+2497) fails

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#129319 (status was 'rejected')

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From @ajs

Via IRC​:

[15​:39] <harmil_wk> Saw the note about unicode radixes and so immediately
tried​:
[15​:39] <harmil_wk> m​: say :⒗<a>
[15​:39] <+camelia> rakudo-moar 77a7a4​: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Argument to
"say" seems to be malformed␤at <tmp>​:1␤------> say⏏ :⒗<a>␤Confused␤at
<tmp>​:1␤------> say :⏏⒗<a>␤ expecting any of​:␤ colon pair␤Other
potential difficulties​:␤ Unsupported…»
[15​:46] <Ivanushka> harmil_wk​: I see no reason why that shouldn't work.
Would you please rakudobug it and maybe ping MasterDuke about it, since
they might be more familiar with that code path

Also, a LTA error, even if that was considered invalid. Should probably
mention that a radix is a valid option there.

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From @MasterDuke17

On Tue Sep 20 10​:40​:26 2016, ajs wrote​:

Via IRC​:

[15​:39] <harmil_wk> Saw the note about unicode radixes and so immediately
tried​:
[15​:39] <harmil_wk> m​: say :⒗<a>
[15​:39] <+camelia> rakudo-moar 77a7a4​: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Argument to
"say" seems to be malformed␤at <tmp>​:1␤------> say⏏ :⒗<a>␤Confused␤at
<tmp>​:1␤------> say :⏏⒗<a>␤ expecting any of​:␤ colon pair␤Other
potential difficulties​:␤ Unsupported…»
[15​:46] <Ivanushka> harmil_wk​: I see no reason why that shouldn't work.
Would you please rakudobug it and maybe ping MasterDuke about it, since
they might be more familiar with that code path

Also, a LTA error, even if that was considered invalid. Should probably
mention that a radix is a valid option there.

--
Aaron Sherman, M.​:
P​: 617-440-4332 Google Talk, Email and Google Plus​: ajs@​ajs.com
Toolsmith, developer, gamer and life-long student.

⒗ won't work by design for a bunch of stuff. See rakudo/rakudo@​e28305cc99b969b9592b9d6606ec5b6d25995a90 for some discussion. It has a .uniprop of 'No' instead of 'Nd'. However, it may be possible to improve the error message.

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The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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From @MasterDuke17

After some discussion with TimToady (https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-dev/2016-09-26#i_13280449), I'm rejecting this ticket. However, if more people open similar tickets the overall problem (Unicode numbers being treated differently than Unicode digits in some cases) could be revisited.

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@MasterDuke17 - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'