utf8 Reference

Mutable uint8 buffer for utf8 binary data

What it is #

Examples, run three ways #

Every example below comes from the official documentation, together with the output that documentation asserts. Each was then executed by Rakudo and by Raku++ when this page was built. Where the three agree, one result is shown; where they do not, all three are — because which of them is wrong is exactly the information worth having.

1 no-output · 1 ok

class utf8 does Blob[uint8] is repr('VMArray') {}

my utf8 $b = "hello".encode;
say $b[1].fmt("0x%X"); # OUTPUT: «0x65␤»

0x65