I think we're very quickly going to get into a tarpit of bickering over the names "encoding" and "charset". I think that the core of the proposal here isn't to ignore one or the other, or to drop all "encodings" in favor of only allowing changable "charsets" or whatever.
The core of the proposal is that each string doesn't need two pointers to controlling structures. We especially don't need them if they tend to boil down to a small handful of specific combinations. We can instead have a single pointer to a single "string manager" object which will do the work that separate "encodings" and "charsets" do currently. --Andrew Whitworth On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM, NotFound <[email protected]> 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? > > Not at all. They all can be worked as encodings. > > -- > Salu2 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
