I plan on having the ability to work with strings without necessarily knowing how they are encoded, and I want to be able to easily convert between different encodings.
The way this could be handled may be similar in design to the way Parrot handles strings. It probably should have a way to implement this functionality in a pluggable way.
It might need to be integrated with IO handling, which I also plan on having higher level constructs.
I hope that it would be simple to read in different encodings and slmost never having to dealing with the minor details.
