spaces and transliteration

[Chris Fields]

I am working on the transliteration method operator (trans()) for  
Rakudo and wanted to get some input on how character ranges are to be  
used.

Should spaces be ignored in ranges like 'A .. Z'?  Currently the  
implementation I have ignores those spaces but counts any other spaces  
as important, so (using parrot perl6.pbc with my patch):

> say "Whfg nabgure Crey unpxre".trans(' a .. z' => '_n .. za .. m',  
'A .. Z' => 'N .. ZA .. M')
Just_another_Perl_hacker

chris