Question by Eric Lindblad about perl 6 and terminal encoding

Latin-1-bytes-and-perl-6.txt

doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e 'say "Hôtel"'
Hô¿½xF4tel
doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e 'say "Hôtel".chars'
5
doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e 'say "Hôtel"' | od -Ax -t x1
000000 48 f4 8f bf bd 78 46 34 74 65 6c 0a
00000c
doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e 'utf8.new(0xF4, 0x8f, 0xbf, 0xbd).Str.ord.&{ "%x".sprintf($_) }.say'
10fffd
doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e 'utf8.new(0xF4, 0x8f, 0xbf, 0xbd).Str.uniname.say'
<private-use-10FFFD>
doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e 'say "Hôtel".codes'
8
doug@ender:~/study$ locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US
doug@ender:~/study$ perl6 -e '$*OUT.encoding("Latin-1"); say "Hôtel"'
Error encoding Latin-1 string: could not encode codepoint 1114109
  in block <unit> at -e line 1

doug@ender:~/study$ vi bytes.txt
doug@ender:~/study$ cat bytes.txt
Hôtel
doug@ender:~/study$ od -Ax -t x1 bytes.txt
000000 48 f4 74 65 6c 0a
000006