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