at http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/03/wall.html Larry Wall writes:
>
> Perl 6 programs are notionally written in Unicode, and assume
> Unicode semantics by default even when they happen to be
> processing other character sets behind the scenes. Note that
> when we say that Perl is written in Unicode, we're speaking of
> an abstract character set, not any particular encoding. (The
> typical program will likely be written in UTF-8 in the West,
> and in some 16-bit character set in the East.)
>
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