Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Proposal:
> - create a new string layer that does this {en,de}coding
> - change the prototypes of PIO_Read to return a STRING*
> - change the prototypes of PIO_Write to get a STRING*
> - layer push and pop functions for ParrotIO
Done that now for the output side.
getstdout P0 # or any PIO
push P0, "utf8" # install utf8 layer
With this sequence output to stdout is written as UTF8.
> - we would need some means to define the default layer
> (i.e. which PIOs do utf8 by default, if any)
This is still the question.
> Strings that don't go through the string layer get a new flag like
> encoding_raw_bytes or such denoting a byte encoded buffer.
How can input strings be created to contain utf8?
Comments welcome,
leo
