From zefram@fysh.org

Does a space-with-diacritic grapheme count as whitespace, for the purposes
of the Perl 6 grammar? Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't​:

"<foo \x[308]bar>".EVAL.perl
("foo", "bar")
"+ \x[308]3".EVAL.perl
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling /home/zefram/tmp/EVAL_1
Prefix + requires an argument, but no valid term found
at /home/zefram/tmp/EVAL_1​:1
------> +^ ?3
  expecting any of​:
  prefix
"Q \x[308]foo bar \x[308]".EVAL
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling /home/zefram/tmp/EVAL_2
Whitespace character (0x20) is not allowed as a delimiter
at /home/zefram/tmp/EVAL_2​:1
------> Q^ ?foo bar ?

I think it should be consistent.

-zefram

From @samcv

Looks like this is very related to RT #​130384. This is somewhat the same problem though one is with degenerates involving whitespace and one with non-whitespace characters.

From @samcv

Looking further at this issue, it looks like we are doing things fine. Though this still is LTA since it would be nice if it was revealed that there were combining codepoints.

From @samcv

Using q quoting with a space and combining character(s) will now result in the following error​:

» q ̌(hi)
Whitespace character ‘SPACE’ (0x20) with 1 combining character is not allowed as a delimiter at line 2, near " ̌(hi)\n"

Commit​: Raku/nqp@0bed230bd