The purpose platform-encoding branch is to lay some groundwork for managing encodings on different platforms.
The underlying assumption used is that a platform uses 1 encoding for its various interfaces (argv, paths, environment variables, etc). A new encoding alias, "platform", has been added to be used for encoding/decoding strings coming from or going to such interfaces. So far, a generic and linux-specific implementation of the platform-specific support code has been implemented and the new functionality has been used to support argv handling and environment variables. _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
