From @coke

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

This is cause failures in t/spec/S02-literals/char-by-name.t

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @pmichaud

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07​:05​:25PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote​:

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

What version of icu?

Pm

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

From @coke

Tried again with latest version from macports​:

% icuinfo | ack version

  <param name="version">49.1.2</param>
  <param name="version.unicode">6.1</param>
  <param name="cldr.version">21.0</param>
  <param name="tz.version">2012c</param>

Same failure.

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10​:12 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud@​pobox.com>wrote​:

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07​:05​:25PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote​:

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

What version of icu?

Pm

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @coke

Also missing & causing test failures.

NULL

CHARACTER TABULATION

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11​:13 PM, Will Coleda <will@​coleda.com> wrote​:

Tried again with latest version from macports​:

% icuinfo | ack version

\<param name="version">49\.1\.2\</param>
\<param name="version\.unicode">6\.1\</param>
\<param name="cldr\.version">21\.0\</param>
\<param name="tz\.version">2012c\</param>

Same failure.

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10​:12 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud@​pobox.com>wrote​:

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07​:05​:25PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote​:

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

What version of icu?

Pm

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @coke

On Sat Apr 20 19​:12​:48 2013, pmichaud wrote​:

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07​:05​:25PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote​:

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

What version of icu?

Pm

Note that these failures are also happening on rakudo-moar

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @coke

On Sun Jul 20 10​:16​:40 2014, coke wrote​:

On Sat Apr 20 19​:12​:48 2013, pmichaud wrote​:

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07​:05​:25PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote​:

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

What version of icu?

Pm

Note that these failures are also happening on rakudo-moar

The test was being skipped on all platforms. It's now unfudged, but will probably require a platform-specific todo for OS X.

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @coke

On Mon Mar 02 21​:56​:43 2015, coke wrote​:

On Sun Jul 20 10​:16​:40 2014, coke wrote​:

On Sat Apr 20 19​:12​:48 2013, pmichaud wrote​:

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07​:05​:25PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote​:

This seems to be an OS X only error​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[LINE FEED (LF)]"'
===SORRY!===
Unrecognized character name LINE FEED (LF)
at -e​:1

but​:

./perl6 -e 'say "\c[COLON]"'
:

What version of icu?

Pm

Note that these failures are also happening on rakudo-moar

The test was being skipped on all platforms. It's now unfudged, but
will probably require a platform-specific todo for OS X.

\c[LINE FEED] is still unrecognized, the test is currently skipped.

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

From @samcv

I have fixed it on the JVM as of NQP commit​:
# Fix RT #​117683 on JVM \c[LINE FEED] \c[CARRIAGE RETURN]
# Also fixes \c[NEXT LINE] as well.
Raku/nqp@0c249e7

Fixed on MoarVM as of MoarVM commit​:
# Fix RT #​117683 \c[LINE FEED] \c[CARRIAGE RETURN]
# Also fixes \c[NEXT LINE] and \c[FORM FEED] as well.
MoarVM/MoarVM@ef734fc

Also in addition as soon as this Pull Request gets accepted we will get access to all of the Unicode Alias names​:
MoarVM/MoarVM#497

@samcv - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'