petdance/scratch — Issue #1096: Byte order of string encodings
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:14:40+00:00
State: open
Labels: core, feature, Pri-normal, Sev-medium

String encodings that are based on units of more than one byte have different representations depending on byte order. It would be nice if we could support little and big endian at least at the FileHandle level.

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1958 by @nwellnhof