id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
800,Parrot assumes command line arguments are ASCII,pmichaud,chromatic,"Currently Parrot (incorrectly) assumes that all command line arguments are ASCII:

{{{
$ cat x.pir
.sub 'main'
    .param pmc args

    $S0 = args[1]
    say $S0

    $I1 = charset $S0
    $S1 = charsetname $I1
    say $S1

    $I1 = encoding $S0
    $S1 = encodingname $I1
    say $S1

    $I1 = length $S0
    say $I1
.end
$ ./parrot x.pir 'say «hello»'
say «hello»
ascii
fixed_8
13
$ 
}}}

Most would expect the above to be a unicode/utf8 string of length 11.

If Parrot itself cannot be easily changed to accept unicode/utf8 command line arguments, then it would be nice to have a way to easily convert the ""ascii"" strings in args into proper unicode strings.  Thus far I've been unable to find a good way of doing that.

This ticket also relates to Rakudo RT #66364.

Pm",bug,new,normal,,core,1.3.0,medium,,,whiteknight plobsing nwellnhof,,,