On Unicode and 𝌡
Folks often wander into #perl, asking about “Wide character …” messages. For unknown reasons, some people are reluctant to read the perldiag documentation that explains this message, and, having been cajoled into reading the documentation, reluctant to follow the advice it outlines, instead insisting on a regex solution to perhaps strip the offending characters. An unrelated discussion at work educed two must reads regarding Unicode:
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