In regexes.rakudoc, correct description of <punct>
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The current description "only Punct beyond ASCII" is wrong, as standard ASCII chars also match
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https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Predefined_character_classes
The current description ("only Punct beyond ASCII") is wrong, because standard ASCII punctuation characters match, too.
From this roast, it's obvious that at least the matching of ASCII and latin punctation is indeed required, but like the present description says, non-ASCII-non-latin punctuation chars also match (REPL:
my $chars = [~] chr(0)..chr(0xFFFF); $chars.comb(/<punct>/).put;), which also seems to be intended.