Why does any of that matter? The .chars method tells you the length of the Str in
graphemes. Consider the Hebrew word for “caterpillar.” It has 11 graphemes but 14
code points:
% perl6
> 'ראַלליפּרעטאַק'.chars
11
> 'ראַלליפּרעטאַק'.codes
14
Why the different counts? There are graphemes such as אַ that are more than one
code point (in that case, the two code points ...