Hi Todd, It's great that you've delved into the "encode" docs. However to answer your question, I think you want to look at the "encoding" routine page:
https://docs.raku.org/routine/encoding#class_IO::Handle Here's the list on that page: utf8 utf16 utf16le utf16be utf8-c8 iso-8859-1 windows-1251 windows-1252 windows-932 ascii HTH, Bill. On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 12:55 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > https://docs.raku.org/routine/encode > > multi method encode(Str:D $encoding = 'utf8', :$replacement, Bool() > :$translate-nl = False, :$strict) > > shows "ascii" and "utf8" as possible values for > "$encoding". > > I tool a guess and found out "utf16". > > Where are the rest of the values???? GGGGRRRRR!!!! > > -T