Re: encode $encoding list ???

[ToddAndMargo via perl6-users]

On 6/19/22 21:49, William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
Hi Todd, I'm trying to follow what you're doing (below in Terminal app 
on MacOS):

~$ raku
Welcome to 𝐑𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐝𝐨™ v2021.06.
Implementing the 𝐑𝐚𝐤𝐮™ programming language v6.d.
Built on MoarVM version 2021.06.

To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
 > print Buf.new(0x84, 0x73, 0x77, 0x84, 0x79).decode("utf8-c8") ~ "\n"
􏿽x84sw􏿽x84y
 >

Not clear if this is what you expect. I've also run code from 
https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode#UTF8-C8 
<https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode#UTF8-C8> and see something 
different from what's posted there:

    my $test-file = "/tmp/test";
    given open($test-file, :w, :bin) {
       .write: Buf.new(ord('A'), 0xFA, ord('B'), 0xFB, 0xFC, ord('C'),
    0xFD);
       .close;
    }

    say slurp($test-file, enc => 'utf8-c8');
    # OUTPUT: «(65 250 66 251 252 67 253)»


The output I actually see is:

A􏿽xFAB􏿽xFB􏿽xFCC􏿽xFD

If I go into /tmp and look at the file created, it contains the 
following single line:

AúBûüCý


HTH, Bill.


On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:42 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users 
<perl6-users@perl.org <mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote:

      >print Buf.new(0x84, 0x73, 0x77, 0x84, 0x79).decode("utf8-c8") ~ "\n"

    􏿽x84sw􏿽x84y




Hi Bill,

I was after getting anything to print.  I expected
it to look like utter non-sense.

It was part of my Keeper on buffers.  And I
had to use "utf8-c8" to keep the line
from crashing.

-T



Buffer to String:
   > say Buf.new(97,98,99).decode
   abc

   >print Buf.new(0x84, 0x73, 0x77, 0x84, 0x79).decode("utf8-c8") ~ "\n"
   􏿽x84sw􏿽x84y

   Decoding values, see: 
https://docs.raku.org/routine/encoding#class_IO::Handle
utf8
utf16
utf16le
utf16be
utf8-c8
iso-8859-1
windows-1251
windows-1252
windows-932
ascii