[RFC] Merge charsets and encodings

Vasily Chekalkin bacek at bacek.com
Wed Aug 25 12:51:42 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer at aevum.de> wrote:
>
> I think the separation of charsets and encodings in the string code doesn't
> make sense. The way I see it, the only charset that's used in Parrot is
> Unicode. ASCII and ISO-8859-1 are subsets of Unicode, so they could be
> treated like the other UTF and UCS encodings.

+1 to drop "charset". We now have ByteBuffer for any corner tasks
comparing to past situation when we use STRINGs as byte buffers.

-- 
Bacek


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