id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1863,Parrot IO and encodings,nwellnhof,nwellnhof,"The FileHandle PMC is supposed to support different encodings via the 'encoding' method. Currently, this only works for single-byte encodings and UTF-8, that is UTF-16, UCS-2 and UCS-4 are not supported. UCS-2 and UCS-4 are fixed-width and should be pretty easy to support, but UTF-16 would need something like the code in src/io/utf8.c. It would be cleaner to move that logic to the string code. We would only need an additional function in the encoding vtable that can partially decode incomplete variable-width strings.

One thing that I don't like is that the 'read' method works on bytes not on characters. I think this doesn't make sense for multi-byte encodings.

We should also consider to support encodings for Socket or StringHandle PMCs.
",feature,closed,normal,3.0,core,2.10.0,medium,fixed,,,,,