id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1791,zero-length string loses encoding in .pbc,pmichaud,,"A zero-length utf8 string loses its encoding when saved in a .pbc file:

{{{
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ ./parrot_config revision
48985
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ cat z.pir
.sub 'main' :main
    $S0 = utf8:unicode:""""
    $I0 = encoding $S0
    $S1 = encodingname $I0
    say $S1
.end

pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ ./parrot -o z.pbc z.pir
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ ./parrot z.pir
utf8
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ ./parrot z.pbc
ascii
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ 
}}}

This makes a difference for functions that make use of string encoding directly; for example, Rakudo passes C<utf8:unicode:""""> to the C<get_string_as> method of ByteBuffer to request a unicode string (but is getting an ascii string when invoked from a .pbc).

Pm",bug,closed,normal,,core,2.7.0,medium,fixed,,chromatic,,,