[RFC] Merge charsets and encodings

[Nick Wellnhofer]

On 25/08/2010 15:16, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> ...in other words, you're proposing that Parrot declare that it will
> never use any character sets other than Unicode?  What about ebcdic,
> iso-8859-*, KOI8-*, etc?
>
> I'm not opposed to such a change... I just want to verify that
> this is in fact what you and others are proposing in this thread.
> Just because Parrot doesn't support other character sets today
> doesn't automatically imply that we'll never want to support them.

My proposal is not to remove support for different character sets, but 
to merge the current charset and encoding interface. I would keep the 
name "encoding" only for lack of a better word. It actually means 
"charset/encoding combination". I think it would even be easier to 
support other charstes after my proposed changes.

Nick