Attempting to use UTF-8 characters in perl6 -e code on Mavericks

rakudo-osx-utf8

$ perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2013.11 built on parrot 5.9.0 revision 0
$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
$ perl6 -e 'say $*VM<config><has_icu>'
1
$ export | grep UTF
declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
$ perl6 -e 'say ("A".."C")>>xx>>2' # Texan works
A A B B C C
$ perl6 -e 'say ("A".."C")»xx»2'   # French doesn't
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e
Two terms in a row
at -e:1
------> say ("A".."C")⏏»xx»2
    expecting any of:
        postfix
        infix stopper
        infix or meta-infix
        statement end
        statement modifier
        statement modifier loop
$ od -t x1 <<<'»'    # this really is UTF-8
0000000    c2  bb  0a                                                    
0000003