>> Can you explain a bit more about the rationale for adding this option to >> Configure.pl? >> > I think I is necessary to tell parrot to work on a computer with utf-8 > encoding > also with the same encoding, so that for example the following PASM-code > works: > > set S0, "Ö123\n"
That code is not supposed to work. Encoding and charset must be specified. Is not good that pir or pasm code meaning be dependent of locale specifics of the system. Also in several operating systems is not the computer who is working with some charset and encoding or other, is each process (depending of user settings on locale env vars, for example). So establishing an immutable global default is not a good idea. -- Salu2
