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