perl6.md

Encoded I/O in Perl 6

All I/O is UTF-8 by default, decoded to strings (Str objects) on input, and encoded on output. Individual streams and filehandles can be handled as follows.

Standard streams

$*IN.encoding  = 'UTF-16';
$*OUT.encoding = 'UTF-16';
$*ERR.encoding = 'UTF-16';

Existing filehandles

$fh.encoding = 'UTF-16';

New filehandles

my $in_fh  = open $path, :r, :enc<UTF-16>;
my $out_fh = open $path, :w, :enc<UTF-16>;