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