id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
2811	Unicode support for text I/O	igloo	simonmar	"This means adding Unicode encoding/decoding for Text I/O handles.

Consensus was that Text I/O should always use the current locale encoding.

You can elect to have no encoding by opening in binary mode, but that's all.

Presumably this will need the ability to convert between arbitrary encodings internally, so it would make sense to also expose this functionality as a library.
"	feature request	closed	high	6.12.1	libraries/base	6.10.1	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple		Unknown